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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. Calls for the __________ inclusion of women and northern free blacks were ignored or rejected.
(a) Political.
(b) Business.
(c) Financial.
(d) Land ownership.

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

3. As the Union Army moved further into the South, the volume of slave fugitives ___________.
(a) Was not measured.
(b) Stayed the same.
(c) Increased.
(d) Decreased.

4. Some slaveholders began offering their slaves small ___________ in order to keep them on the plantations.
(a) Wages.
(b) Houses.
(c) Pieces of land.
(d) Bribes.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The time period of the book is a time when African American men won and lost the right to __________.

3. What is NOT one of the types of plantations on which the slaves in the south used to work?

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

5. Plantation ________, who wielded the most power within the community, tended to be male.

(see the answer key)

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