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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 the name of the early nineteenth century slave who heard stories of Africa from his grandfather and later wrote an autobiography?
(a) Charlie Ball.
(b) Charles Ball.
(c) Charles Bale.
(d) Charlie Bale.

2. Whose account supports the author's claim that slave traders often used tricks to make the slaves appear well-groomed and healthy for the day of the auction?
(a) Delicia Patterson.
(b) Henson.
(c) Annonymous.
(d) Jenny Proctor.

3. What was the weigh-in time?
(a) Slaves had to have their baskets full of crop weighed at the end of each day to ensure they were doing their work.
(b) Slaves had to help their masters weigh the items they owned because each slave was allowed only a certain weight limit for personal objects.
(c) Slaves had to have themselves weighed at the end of each day in case they were getting too much to eat.
(d) Slaves had to have their baskets full of cotton weighed at the end of each day.

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

5. Where did some of the most emotional scenes of slave trading take place?
(a) At the slave's home on the plantation.
(b) At the foot of the auction block.
(c) At the new plantation.
(d) At the Big House.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the slaves call the slave owner's house?

2. Who told the account of a man named Gabe?

3. What was Franklin and Armfield?

4. How was Frank Cooper and his sister given a taste of slavery?

5. What animals did the master who taught his son to call him "Papa" use to teach his black son and white son about brotherhood?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did slave owners attempt to be nice towards children on the auction block before purchasing them? And did this attempt usually work?

2. According to Chapter 3, what were the conditions of the slave homes that belonged to George Washington?

3. Briefly describe the slave trading market.

4. What was the story of Blackshear and what was the significance?

5. In Chapter 5, what does the story of Paul symbolize?

6. From Chapter 4, discuss how slave owners brainwashed slaves.

7. What usually happened with slave families during the slave trades?

8. What was the story of Powhatan Mitchell and what did it signify?

9. Who is Mr. Wilson described by Ball in the Prologue and what is his story?

10. Briefly describe a typical plantation.

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