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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5, Resistance to Slavery - 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What event set off a large amount of slave selling?
(a) The election of Abraham Lincoln as President.
(b) The nomination of Abraham Lincoln as President.
(c) The death of many slaves due to the unconditionally hot weather in the summer.
(d) The death of many slave owners due to the plague.

2. Who were the house servants?
(a) They were the slaves that were treated better than the others and usually model slaves.
(b) They were the maids of the house.
(c) They were the slaves that never left the house.
(d) They were the ones who were paid small amounts of money by the masters and were not really slaves.

3. How was slavery in the United States different than slavery in other countries?
(a) Slavery in the United States did not allow slaves to have families.
(b) Slavery in the United States was far more cruel and culture-destroying than the others.
(c) Slavery in the United States allowed some slaves to be set free.
(d) Slavery in the United States was far more lenient in the way slaves were treated.

4. If a slave did not have the correct weigh-in amount, what was the consequence?
(a) Lashes.
(b) All clothing taken away.
(c) No food for a week.
(d) Being thrown in a buck.

5. What was the purpose of the slaves to appear ignorant, sloppy, and stupid?
(a) To gain less food and less work.
(b) To gain less work and less whippings.
(c) To gain less work and more food.
(d) To gain more food and less whippings.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did the attempt to use this second group of people also fail for the English colonists?

2. Which person fits the author's description of the type of slave that was "so enslaved that once slavery had ended, they were sorry"?

3. When was the only time slaves got a few days to a week off?

4. What did the slaves use religion for?

5. The cotton picking season began when?

(see the answer key)

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