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

2. This is a book about ___________ people who did extraordinary things under the most difficult of circumstances, writes Hahn.
(a) Extraordinary.
(b) Enslaved.
(c) Black.
(d) Belittled.

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

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

5. Slave congregations pulsed not only with ____________, but also with collective deliberation.
(a) Anger.
(b) Passion.
(c) Religion.
(d) Joy.

Short Answer Questions

1. Hahn discovered there were more examples of resistance and political struggle across the South in the wake of the _____________.

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

3. Hahn argues that African Americans contributed to the formation of a new ___________ nation.

4. A ____________ Movement developed as an influx of poor Irish Catholics arriving in the United States.

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

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