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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1, Chapter 3 Of Rumors and Revelations.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Those slaves who remained in the south began to take over their master's "____________" plantations.
(a) Burned down.
(b) Free.
(c) Abandoned.
(d) Larger.

2. As the __________ government organized, opportunities increased for slaves to become better acquainted with each other and political events.
(a) Confederate.
(b) Union.
(c) Emancipation.
(d) Republican.

3. Hahn sees his book as encompassing collective struggled for social and meaningful ____________.
(a) Peace.
(b) Power.
(c) Pride.
(d) Community.

4. Slaves working within kin groups or ______ did not escape punishment, but were better able to maintain and secure the gains they did make.
(a) Work gangs.
(b) Collectives.
(c) Cooperatives.
(d) Plantations.

5. When manpower needs raced ahead of recruitment, the army pressed _________ into service.
(a) Slaveowners.
(b) Blacks.
(c) Whites.
(d) Young boys.

Short Answer Questions

1. Almost universally, freed people believed that some __________ for the trials of slavery should occur.

2. On July __________, millions of freed people claimed access to public space previously denied to them.

3. The rural South was a luminal political world after the __________ ended.

4. Hahn discovered there were more examples of resistance and political struggle across the South in the wake of the _____________.

5. This is a book about ___________ people who did extraordinary things under the most difficult of circumstances, writes Hahn.

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