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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) Business.
(b) Financial.
(c) Political.
(d) Land ownership.

2. When manpower needs raced ahead of recruitment, the army pressed _________ into service.
(a) Young boys.
(b) Whites.
(c) Slaveowners.
(d) Blacks.

3. Hahn sees his book as encompassing collective struggled for social and meaningful ____________.
(a) Community.
(b) Power.
(c) Peace.
(d) Pride.

4. Even before the presidential election took place, rumors were circulating that ___________ had won.
(a) Lincoln.
(b) A black man.
(c) No one.
(d) Jefferson.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. About one in ________ slaves lived in the upper or border South, where the hiring of free people of color was not uncommon.

3. Slaveholders complained about the sulkiness, demoralization, and insubordination on the part of _____________.

4. The majority of ______________ lived in the rural South during this particular time period of the book.

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

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