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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. About one in ________ slaves lived in the upper or border South, where the hiring of free people of color was not uncommon.
(a) Ten.
(b) Four.
(c) Five.
(d) Eight.

2. Slaveholders tolerated some economic activities from slaves. Which of these is NOT one of the tolerated activities?
(a) Hunting.
(b) Selling handmade crafts.
(c) Raising livestock.
(d) Cultivating subsistence and market garden plots.

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

4. _________ was another way that slaves earned goods and money and increased their leverage.
(a) Marriage.
(b) Ritual gifting.
(c) Good behavior.
(d) Sexual favors.

5. Hahn argues that smaller __________ do not allow us to see how the developments of one era shaped those of the next.
(a) Movements.
(b) Events.
(c) Books.
(d) Time periods.

Short Answer Questions

1. General Benjamin F. Butler declared slaves ______________ of war and put them to work.

2. Due to the increase in slave ___________, a structure of kinship relationships and practices developed.

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

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

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

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