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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many shirts did each working slave get for a year?
(a) 2.
(b) 5.
(c) 1.
(d) 3.

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

3. Who did Phillips watch being dragged off to be lynched, according to his narrative in the second Preface?
(a) James McAlister.
(b) William Lloyd Garrison.
(c) Frederick Douglass.
(d) Daniel O'Connell.

4. What does Douglass describe in detail in Chapter 2?
(a) His mother and her parents.
(b) His aunts and uncles.
(c) His first masters and the farms he lived on.
(d) His brother and sisters.

5. What is Douglass irritated with his mother for in Chapter 1?
(a) For coming to visit him, knowing she could get beaten for it.
(b) For dying.
(c) Not telling him who his father is.
(d) For leaving him even though he knows she could not help it.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. How old does Douglass write that he thinks he is in the first Chapter?

4. What body of water does Phillips say Douglass has seen the ships sailing on in the second Preface?

5. How many farms did Colonel Edward Lloyd own?

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