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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where is the opening Preface said to be written?
(a) Boston.
(b) Baltimore.
(c) St. Charles.
(d) New York.

2. What rumor does Douglass relate about himself in Chapter 1?
(a) His father was a white man.
(b) His father was a doctor.
(c) His father was a lawyer.
(d) His father was a Civil War soldier.

3. What best defines what "mulatto" means?
(a) A person who is violent to slaves.
(b) A slave child.
(c) An adulterous relationship between a master and a slave.
(d) A person who has one white parent and one blank parent.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the newspaper Garrison published?

2. What later happened to the person whose offices and printing presses were destroyed?

3. What is the writer of the second Preface famous for?

4. What do the white sails of the ships mentioned in the second Preface symbolize?

5. To whom does the author compare Douglass in the second Preface?

(see the answer key)

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