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

2. General Benjamin F. Butler declared slaves ______________ of war and put them to work.
(a) Victims.
(b) Spoils.
(c) Prisoners.
(d) Contraband.

3. Almost 150,000 African Americans ended up fighting for the which army during the Civil War?
(a) Confederate.
(b) Union.
(c) Neither.
(d) Both.

4. What is NOT one of the types of plantations on which the slaves in the south used to work?
(a) Cotton.
(b) Rice.
(c) Orange.
(d) Sugar.

5. The rumors were able to spread because thousands of slaves were drawn to ____________ during the war.
(a) Farms.
(b) Social sites.
(c) Prisons.
(d) The draft.

Short Answer Questions

1. Hahn notes there is a lot of information about African American ______ during this time period, but not a lot on politics.

2. As the Union Army moved further into the South, the volume of slave fugitives ___________.

3. Those slaves who remained in the south began to take over their master's "____________" plantations.

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

5. "Black ________" effectively gave a separate legal and social status to blacks during this time.

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