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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Second Preface.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

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

3. Who gave the anti-slavery speech in Massachusetts that is described in the Preface?
(a) Paul Davenport.
(b) Frederick Douglass.
(c) Daniel O'Connell.
(d) William Smith.

4. What did Wendell Phillips do for a living?
(a) He was a soldier.
(b) He was a lawyer.
(c) He was a publisher.
(d) He was a writer.

5. Where is the opening Preface said to be written?
(a) St. Charles.
(b) Boston.
(c) Baltimore.
(d) New York.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what city in Massachusetts did Garrison hear the speech about slavery that is described in the Preface?

2. Who helped Frederick Douglass with his writing of this narrative?

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

4. Who did Phillips watch being dragged off to be lynched, according to his narrative in the second Preface?

5. Garrison asks the reader for sympathy for whom in the Preface?

(see the answer key)

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