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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happened when Phillips went to the police about issues related to slavery?
(a) The police found the wrongdoers and punished them.
(b) The police did nothing.
(c) The police put Phillips in jail.
(d) The police investigated .

2. How many years was Daniel O'Connell a slave in Africa?
(a) 10.
(b) 2.
(c) 5.
(d) 3.

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

4. Which relatives' names does Douglass know?
(a) His mother and her parents.
(b) His father and his uncle.
(c) His father and his parents.
(d) His mother and his aunt.

5. What did Wendell Phillips do for a living?
(a) He was a publisher.
(b) He was a writer.
(c) He was a soldier.
(d) He was a lawyer.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who did Douglass's first master have as a supervisor?

2. Who gave the anti-slavery speech in Massachusetts that is described in the Preface?

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

4. When was the second Preface written?

5. At what age was Frederick Douglass when he was taken from his mother's care?

(see the answer key)

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