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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What is the final line of Garrison's Preface (x)?
(a) "DEATH TO THE SLAVEHOLDERS!"
(b) "NO COMPROMISE WITH SLAVERY! NO UNION WITH SLAVEHOLDERS!"
(c) "FREE ALL THE SLAVES NOW!"
(d) "WE CAN FREE THE SLAVES NOW!"

5. Garrison builds up Douglass as an icon of what movement in the Preface?
(a) Fundamentalist.
(b) Democratic.
(c) Religious.
(d) Abolitionist.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Garrison's newspaper published?

2. How does Garrison describe Douglass's nature in the Preface?

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

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

5. When was the second Preface written?

(see the answer key)

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