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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was Colonel Edward Lloyd?
(a) A lawyer.
(b) A doctor.
(c) A slaveholder.
(d) A Civil War soldier.

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

3. What is the "West Indies Experiment?"
(a) An experiment to test working conditions on plantations.
(b) An experiment to keep slave families together.
(c) An experiment to make white people slaves.
(d) An experiment to see if slaves that were freed would be just as productive as the slaves who were not.

4. What later happened to the person whose offices and printing presses were destroyed?
(a) The person got help and rebuildt what was destroyed.
(b) The person went to jail.
(c) The person was murdered.
(d) The person moved away.

5. Phillips compares the Mississippi Valley to a story in what publication?
(a) A newspaper.
(b) A letter.
(c) The Bible.
(d) A journal.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Phillips say he did while reading what Douglass had written?

2. Where was the punishment of slaves and the food given out for Lloyd's slaves?

3. When did William Lloyd Garrison see the abolitionist speech described in the Preface?

4. What does the author of the second Preface compare slaves to?

5. Wendell Phillips was the son of a mayor of what city in Massachusetts?

(see the answer key)

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