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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1, Chapter 2 The Choked Voices of a Race at Last Unloosed.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Congress finally moved to prohibit military personnel from ________ slaves to their owners.
(a) Introducing.
(b) Surrendering.
(c) Challenging.
(d) Selling.

2. Slave rebellions started with small scale departures for ___________ lines.
(a) Confederate.
(b) Democratic.
(c) Union.
(d) Republican.

3. This book is about how African Americans became involved in a(n) ____________ struggle.
(a) Ethnic.
(b) Civil.
(c) Marital.
(d) Political.

4. Congress voted for a stronger ________ law in order to help slave owners hold onto their slaves.
(a) Freed slave.
(b) Fugitive slave.
(c) Slave punishment.
(d) Bounty hunter.

5. In 1862, the War Department authorized the establishment of a ______________.
(a) Union spy team.
(b) White and black regiment.
(c) Black regiment.
(d) Confederate dissolution.

Short Answer Questions

1. Due to the increase in slave ___________, a structure of kinship relationships and practices developed.

2. Few slaves knew how to ___________ before they entered the military.

3. What is NOT one of the things which Hahn sees as being embraced after the struggles were defeated and the goals rejected?

4. Calls for the __________ inclusion of women and northern free blacks were ignored or rejected.

5. Slaves working within kin groups or ______ did not escape punishment, but were better able to maintain and secure the gains they did make.

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