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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6, Emancipation.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who shared the story of being unable to believe that freedom had come upon the slaves?
(a) Betty Jones.
(b) Tom Robinson.
(c) Anna Woods.
(d) Tom Hester.

2. What exactly happened at the occasion of a young slave woman named Eliza?
(a) Eliza was bought by a kind master.
(b) Eliza was bought by the master who owned her family.
(c) Eliza was bought by some free blacks and then freed herself.
(d) Eliza was bought and freed by a man from New York.

3. When did slaves begin freeing themselves?
(a) Right when the Civil War ended.
(b) After all the southern states were under Union control.
(c) When they heard a rumor that they were declared free.
(d) After the Emancipation Proclamation was declared.

4. Who were the house servants?
(a) They were the slaves that were treated better than the others and usually model slaves.
(b) They were the maids of the house.
(c) They were the slaves that never left the house.
(d) They were the ones who were paid small amounts of money by the masters and were not really slaves.

5. Who was the general of the Union Army?
(a) Ulysses S. Grant.
(b) Abraham Lincoln.
(c) Samuel Cooper.
(d) Robert E. Lee.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did some of the most emotional scenes of slave trading take place?

2. ____________ was the practice of slave owners which resulted in more children for next generation labor and an easy way to make a profit through sales.

3. In Chapter 2, who was free man who was captured and put into slavery?

4. The slave trading was much like today's ____________________.

5. Who said the following: "I have never seen or heard from her from that day to this. I loved her as I love my life."

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