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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. Hahn is mindful of overemphasizing the number of _________ which formed during these periods of time.
(a) Lynchings.
(b) White groups.
(c) Voting rules.
(d) Solidarities.

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

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

4. Hahn argues that smaller __________ do not allow us to see how the developments of one era shaped those of the next.
(a) Books.
(b) Time periods.
(c) Events.
(d) Movements.

5. This book is about how African Americans became involved in a(n) ____________ struggle.
(a) Political.
(b) Ethnic.
(c) Marital.
(d) Civil.

Short Answer Questions

1. Slave congregations pulsed not only with ____________, but also with collective deliberation.

2. Slaves in the South began to gain ________ for themselves as well as looser standards.

3. When African Americans were slaves or freed people, the overwhelming majority of them were _____________.

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

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

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