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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4, Resistance to Slavery - 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the advantage to a slave for being sold in an auction that took place in his area?
(a) He knew the people who bid on him.
(b) He knew he could run away before being bought.
(c) He knew he would go to someone better than his current master.
(d) He knew he would not be sold again after this time.

2. The job of a slaver trader was to sell the slave to the _____________.
(a) Kindest master.
(b) Highest bidder.
(c) Cruelest master.
(d) Most respected bidder.

3. Slaves knew they were enslaved because of what two reasons?
(a) Free labor and money resulting from it and selling slaves.
(b) Free labor and the large supply of blacks.
(c) Stealing from other slave owners and free labor.
(d) Money from selling slaves and stealing from other slave owners.

4. Which person fits the author's description of the type of slave that was "so enslaved that once slavery had ended, they were sorry"?
(a) Alice Johnson.
(b) Byrl Anderson.
(c) Charley Williams.
(d) Annonymous.

5. Many of the white men and black slave children had what sort of unique bond, though not always acknowledged?
(a) Father and slave.
(b) Master and servant.
(c) Master and slave.
(d) Father and son/daughter.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is true about slaves and their living on plantations?

2. What happened to the children who were captured with their mothers and brought aboard the slave ship?

3. What was the second group of people that the colonists tried to use for manual labor?

4. Why did the attempt to use this second group of people also fail for the English colonists?

5. Who describes being thrown in a buck and whipped?

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