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

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

3. In 1862, the War Department authorized the establishment of a ______________.
(a) Union spy team.
(b) Confederate dissolution.
(c) White and black regiment.
(d) Black regiment.

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

5. Hahn became interested in the history of African American struggles when he came across an account of African American __________ resistance.
(a) Education.
(b) Political.
(c) Voting.
(d) Labor.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Solidarities were created by the political _______________ of African Americans.

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

5. Even before the presidential election took place, rumors were circulating that ___________ had won.

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