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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. In what area of the country does Hahn focus the contents of this book he has compiled?
(a) East Coast.
(b) West Coast.
(c) Rural South.
(d) Urban North.

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

3. This is a book about ___________ people who did extraordinary things under the most difficult of circumstances, writes Hahn.
(a) Extraordinary.
(b) Black.
(c) Enslaved.
(d) Belittled.

4. Slaves in the South began to gain ________ for themselves as well as looser standards.
(a) Money.
(b) Property.
(c) Voting rights.
(d) Free time.

5. The majority of ______________ lived in the rural South during this particular time period of the book.
(a) African Americans.
(b) Slaveowners.
(c) Organizers.
(d) Whites.

Short Answer Questions

1. Almost 150,000 African Americans ended up fighting for the which army during the Civil War?

2. Some slaves were convinced that because of the presumed election results, that ___________ was imminent.

3. Hahn sees his book as encompassing collective struggled for social and meaningful ____________.

4. Some slaveholders began offering their slaves small ___________ in order to keep them on the plantations.

5. Hahn is mindful of overemphasizing the number of _________ which formed during these periods of time.

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