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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1, Chapter 2 The Choked Voices of a Race at Last Unloosed.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. The time period of the book is a time when African American men won and lost the right to __________.
(a) Vote.
(b) Be free.
(c) Get married.
(d) Own land.

4. _________ was another way that slaves earned goods and money and increased their leverage.
(a) Good behavior.
(b) Sexual favors.
(c) Ritual gifting.
(d) Marriage.

5. What is NOT one of the things which Hahn sees as being embraced after the struggles were defeated and the goals rejected?
(a) Emigrationism.
(b) Voting laws.
(c) Separatism.
(d) Self-help.

Short Answer Questions

1. As the __________ government organized, opportunities increased for slaves to become better acquainted with each other and political events.

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

3. This book is about how African Americans became involved in a(n) ____________ struggle.

4. What kind of winds blew into the United States during the 1850s, according to Hahn's book?

5. Hahn argues that African Americans contributed to the formation of a new ___________ nation.

(see the answer key)

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