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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. Slave recruits were generally __________ able to lead as the widely lacked skills and experience.
(a) Just as.
(b) More.
(c) Willing and.
(d) Less.

2. About one in ________ slaves lived in the upper or border South, where the hiring of free people of color was not uncommon.
(a) Four.
(b) Ten.
(c) Five.
(d) Eight.

3. Some slaves were convinced that because of the presumed election results, that ___________ was imminent.
(a) Death.
(b) Freedom.
(c) War.
(d) Emigration.

4. An aspect that has often been overlooked in the literature on slavery is ____________ between slaves.
(a) Committments.
(b) Exchanges.
(c) Infighting.
(d) Dispute resolution.

5. In the rural South, instead of petitions and calls for equality, mutually reinforcing _________ spread about either the federal government's future or insurrections.
(a) Rumors.
(b) Conventions.
(c) Laws.
(d) Pamphlets.

Short Answer Questions

1. Hahn learned that in ________, Mississippi, freedmen and women were driving their employers to distraction in 1868.

2. Any action undertaken by African Americans needed to be taken as a ______________ so as to avoid punishment.

3. Those leading the new black political movement were mostly men who had been ________ before the war.

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

5. In what area of the country does Hahn focus the contents of this book he has compiled?

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