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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What extreme example does Douglass give in Chapter 4 of what slaveholders are able to get away with?
(a) Overworking slaves.
(b) Beating slaves.
(c) Murdering slaves.
(d) Starving slaves.

3. What does Frederick Douglass say disgusts him in Chapter 1?
(a) Slaves being removed from their families.
(b) Slaveholders forcing themselves on slave women, then having children with them.
(c) The murder of innocent people.
(d) Slaves being sold in cities.

4. What was a teenage girl in Douglass's own family killed for?
(a) Not properly cleaning the kitchen.
(b) Talking to the masters children.
(c) Falling asleep while babysitting.
(d) Feeding the house animals too much.

5. What is the writer of the second Preface famous for?
(a) Being a slave trainer.
(b) Being a slave master.
(c) Being an anti-slavery orator.
(d) Writing.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does Douglass describe the slave master who replaced Mr. Hopkins?

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

4. At what age was Frederick Douglass when he was taken from his mother's care?

5. What event did the author of the second Preface predict?

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