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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Douglass's concern in Chapter 1 symbolic for?
(a) Loss of his identity.
(b) Feeling helpless.
(c) Lack of control.
(d) Not being loved.

2. What has stayed in Douglass's memory for the rest of his life, according to his narrative in Chapter 2?
(a) The images of the slaves being beaten.
(b) The emotional impact of the songs the slaves sing.
(c) The emotional impact of babies being taken from their mothers.
(d) The images of slaves being hung.

3. When was Garrison's newspaper published?
(a) Before the Civil War.
(b) Before, during, and after the Civil War.
(c) During the Civil War.
(d) After the Civil War.

4. What event did the author of the second Preface predict?
(a) His own death.
(b) The end of slavery the following year.
(c) The death of Douglass.
(d) The Civil War.

5. Who helped Frederick Douglass with his writing of this narrative?
(a) James McAlister.
(b) No one.
(c) William L. Garrison.
(d) Daniel O'Connell.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the final line of Garrison's Preface (x)?

2. What were the ships Phillips describes in the second Preface carrying?

3. According to Douglass, what did the slaves strive for at Lloyd's plantations?

4. Why does Douglas think Mr. Hopkins was replaced?

5. What type of writing is the second Preface?

(see the answer key)

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