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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Phillips say he did while reading what Douglass had written?
(a) Cried.
(b) Trembled.
(c) Laughed.
(d) Shook.

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

3. When did William Lloyd Garrison see the abolitionist speech described in the Preface?
(a) 1862.
(b) 1859.
(c) 1841.
(d) 1835.

4. What is the female slave's name that Douglass describes being beaten by the supervisor in Chapter 1?
(a) Aunt Hester.
(b) Arlene Henry.
(c) Ann Jester.
(d) Jan Harris.

5. What is the possible real reason that the female slave was beaten?
(a) She ran away, but was later caught.
(b) She was disobedent.
(c) She is found with a male slave and her master was jealous.
(d) She stole some food.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose offices and printing presses were destroyed in the narrative of the second Preface?

2. Garrison refers to Douglas as a man with what, in his Preface (x)?

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

4. Why did the Colonel put tar on the fence?

5. What is a main theme that Douglass uses in Chapter 3?

(see the answer key)

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