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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is true about slaves and their living on plantations?
(a) Most slaves were able to choose which plantations they wanted to live on for the remainder of their lives.
(b) Most slaves would live on at least two, and many times more, plantations throughout their life.
(c) Most slaves were exchanged between plantation owners of the same area so that they were somewhere different every few months.
(d) Most slaves lived one one plantation througout their life.

2. During which months were the slave coffles usually seen?
(a) October to May.
(b) May to October.
(c) September to March.
(d) March to September.

3. How long did Armacie Adams continue working as a slave before finding out he was free?
(a) Six months.
(b) Three months.
(c) Two years.
(d) More than a year.

4. 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) Eliza.
(b) Annonymous.
(c) Alice Johnson.
(d) Delicia Patterson.

5. What year was the Emancipation Proclamation declared?
(a) 1865.
(b) 1866.
(c) 1861.
(d) 1863.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did the South surrender to the North?

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

3. The job of a slaver trader was to sell the slave to the _____________.

4. When was the only time slaves got a few days to a week off?

5. What did some of the slave owners do when freedom was declared?

(see the answer key)

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