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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why did the emotional scenes during slave trades occur?
(a) Slave families rejoiced at being bought together.
(b) Slave families were being split apart.
(c) Slaves didn't agree with the price they were being sold for.
(d) Slaves did not want to part from their original masters.

2. Who said, "Judge Miller! Don't you bid for me, 'cause if you do, I would not live on your plantation. I will take a knife and cut my own throat from ear to ear before I would be owned by you."?
(a) Annonymous.
(b) Delicia Patterson.
(c) Alice Johnson.
(d) Eliza.

3. What did the slaves use religion for?
(a) Resisting the dehumanizing effects of slavery.
(b) Learning new stories.
(c) Understanding how to treat their masters.
(d) Simple worship.

4. In Chapter 2, who was free man who was captured and put into slavery?
(a) Charles Ball.
(b) Lorenzo Ivy.
(c) Ben Simpson.
(d) Solomon Northup.

5. What did slaves turn to as a form of increasing their inner strength?
(a) Giving themselves names.
(b) Celebrating in the woods.
(c) Singing.
(d) Religion.

Short Answer Questions

1. During which months were the slave coffles usually seen?

2. Slave traders chained slaves together in a line in what was called a _________________.

3. Who attempted to gain favor of his master by accomplishing satisfactory deeds in hopes of becoming a house servant?

4. Most of the time when a slave was going to be __________, he/she _____________ know about it in advance.

5. Which of the following is NOT something the slaves did when they heard of their freedom?

(see the answer key)

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