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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the writer of the second Preface famous for?
(a) Writing.
(b) Being a slave trainer.
(c) Being an anti-slavery orator.
(d) Being a slave master.

2. While Douglass talks about slavery, what does he have flashbacks about in Chapter 1?
(a) His first love.
(b) His family.
(c) His first master.
(d) A friend who was a slave as a child.

3. What body of water does Phillips say Douglass has seen the ships sailing on in the second Preface?
(a) The Atlantic Ocean.
(b) The Chesapeake Bay.
(c) The Boston Harbor.
(d) Cape Cod.

4. In what city in Massachusetts did Garrison hear the speech about slavery that is described in the Preface?
(a) Nantucket.
(b) Plymouth.
(c) Boston.
(d) Springfield.

5. Garrison asks the reader for sympathy for whom in the Preface?
(a) Frederick Douglass.
(b) The slaveholders.
(c) Himself.
(d) The down-trodden victims.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who did Phillips watch being dragged off to be lynched, according to his narrative in the second Preface?

2. Which relatives' names does Douglass know?

3. Who was Frederick Douglass's first master?

4. What event did the author of the second Preface predict?

5. What is Douglass's concern in Chapter 1 symbolic for?

(see the answer key)

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