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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is a third way early slave trades were carried out?
(a) Slave traders would drug Africans and steal them.
(b) African chiefs were tricked into "loaning out" tribesmen as indentured servants.
(c) African chiefs made deals with one another to trade their own tribesmen and prisoners to the white traders for goods.
(d) Slave traders started fights with Africans, making bets that if the Africans lost, they would have to become slaves.

2. What animals did the master who taught his son to call him "Papa" use to teach his black son and white son about brotherhood?
(a) Pigs.
(b) Sheep.
(c) Goats.
(d) Chickens.

3. The cotton picking season began when?
(a) Latter part of July.
(b) Latter part of June.
(c) Latter part of August.
(d) Beginning of September.

4. Which of the following were not one of the people who would administer a whipping to a slave?
(a) The slave owner's child.
(b) The slave owner.
(c) The slave owner's wife.
(d) The overseer.

5. How much time did the slaves typically get for a break?
(a) 15 - 20 minutes.
(b) 20 - 30 minutes.
(c) 10 - 15 minutes.
(d) 1 hour.

Short Answer Questions

1. Most of the time when a slave was going to be __________, he/she _____________ know about it in advance.

2. What was 'Ol Gabe known for?

3. What was another cause of death of the Africans aboard the slave ship?

4. Slaves knew they were enslaved because of what two reasons?

5. Which of the following is NOT a reason a slave owner might sell a slave?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the brief story of the slave named Jake from Chapter 5 and what is its significance?

2. Describe what it means to be thrown "in a buck."

3. Why do you think Tom Robinson from Chapter 6 could not believe he was emancipated?

4. Briefly describe a typical plantation.

5. Why were many of the former slaves that the Federal Writer's Project interviewed bitter?

6. What was Julius Lester's purpose for writing "To Be a Slave" and did he accomplish it?

7. Even though Lincoln's original goal was not to free the slaves through the Civil War, why did so many slaves join the Union army?

8. What were some ways in which the slaves learned to resist the brainwashing and dehumanizing tactics of the slave owners?

9. How effective was the Emancipation Proclamation once it was issued in 1863?

10. How does Ball describe his first encounter with white people in the Prologue?

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