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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the final line of Garrison's Preface (x)?
(a) "FREE ALL THE SLAVES NOW!"
(b) "NO COMPROMISE WITH SLAVERY! NO UNION WITH SLAVEHOLDERS!"
(c) "WE CAN FREE THE SLAVES NOW!"
(d) "DEATH TO THE SLAVEHOLDERS!"

2. What later happened to the person whose offices and printing presses were destroyed?
(a) The person went to jail.
(b) The person was murdered.
(c) The person moved away.
(d) The person got help and rebuildt what was destroyed.

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

4. In what city in Massachusetts did Garrison hear the speech about slavery that is described in the Preface?
(a) Nantucket.
(b) Plymouth.
(c) Boston.
(d) Springfield.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Wendell Phillips was the son of a mayor of what city in Massachusetts?

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

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

4. What is one of the contrasting effects of slavery that Douglass suffers, according to Garrison in the Preface (x)?

5. What is William Lloyd Garrison well-known for being?

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