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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. Mobility, craft skills, and literacy were all crucial components in the creation of political __________.
(a) Voters.
(b) Presidents.
(c) Actors.
(d) Candidates.

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

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

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

5. Hahn learned that in ________, Mississippi, freedmen and women were driving their employers to distraction in 1868.
(a) Chattanooga.
(b) Biloxi.
(c) Woodville.
(d) Memphis.

Short Answer Questions

1. African Americans exposed the complex and contradictory relationship between labor and _____________.

2. Hahn became interested in the history of African American struggles when he came across an account of African American __________ resistance.

3. _________ was another way that slaves earned goods and money and increased their leverage.

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

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

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