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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was the opening Preface written?
(a) 1849.
(b) 1902.
(c) 1845.
(d) 1865.

2. What type of writing is the second Preface?
(a) An essay.
(b) A poem.
(c) A short story.
(d) A letter.

3. Approximately how many issues of his newspaper did William Lloyd Garrison publish?
(a) 1,800 issues.
(b) 500 issues.
(c) 15,000 issues.
(d) 100 issues.

4. Garrison refers to Douglas as a man with what, in his Preface (x)?
(a) "Little hope."
(b) "Commanding stature."
(c) "A body ravaged by time."
(d) "High regard."

5. Wendell Phillips was the son of a mayor of what city in Massachusetts?
(a) Plymouth.
(b) Springfield.
(c) Nantucket.
(d) Boston.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. What does Phillips say he did while reading what Douglass had written?

5. Who gave the anti-slavery speech in Massachusetts that is described in the Preface?

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