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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. The wartime military provided a basic political _____________ to fugitive slaves.
(a) Structure.
(b) Manual.
(c) Organization.
(d) Education.

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

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

4. Hahn discovered there were more examples of resistance and political struggle across the South in the wake of the _____________.
(a) Election.
(b) Civil War.
(c) Emancipation.
(d) Antebellum.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Any action undertaken by African Americans needed to be taken as a ______________ so as to avoid punishment.

2. In 1862, the War Department authorized the establishment of a ______________.

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

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

5. Hahn notes there is a lot of information about African American ______ during this time period, but not a lot on politics.

(see the answer key)

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