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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1, Chapter 1 Of Chains and Threads.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. African Americans exposed the complex and contradictory relationship between labor and _____________.
(a) Freedom.
(b) Rights.
(c) Democracy.
(d) Peace.

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

3. When African Americans were slaves or freed people, the overwhelming majority of them were _____________.
(a) Workers.
(b) Battered.
(c) Ignored.
(d) Slaves.

4. This is a book about the inspiring and the dispiriting history of American ____________.
(a) Democracy.
(b) Turmoil.
(c) Equality.
(d) Voting.

5. Hahn argues that African Americans contributed to the formation of a new ___________ nation.
(a) Free.
(b) Equal.
(c) Political.
(d) Democratic.

Short Answer Questions

1. Even before the presidential election took place, rumors were circulating that ___________ had won.

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

3. Mobility, craft skills, and literacy were all crucial components in the creation of political __________.

4. Slaves working within kin groups or ______ did not escape punishment, but were better able to maintain and secure the gains they did make.

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

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