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

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

3. Solidarities were created by the political _______________ of African Americans.
(a) Churches.
(b) Protests.
(c) Mobilizations.
(d) Finances.

4. Almost 150,000 African Americans ended up fighting for the which army during the Civil War?
(a) Union.
(b) Both.
(c) Confederate.
(d) Neither.

5. Hahn notes there is a lot of information about African American ______ during this time period, but not a lot on politics.
(a) Churches.
(b) Life.
(c) Slavery.
(d) Literature.

Short Answer Questions

1. Congress finally moved to prohibit military personnel from ________ slaves to their owners.

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

3. The wartime military provided a basic political _____________ to fugitive slaves.

4. As the Union Army moved further into the South, the volume of slave fugitives ___________.

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

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