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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 a second principal item for which slaves were traded for?
(a) Yards of cotton.
(b) Domesticated dogs.
(c) Horses.
(d) Several pounds of corn.

2. A buck position consisted of all of the following except....
(a) Face being stuck in the ground.
(b) Hands being tied together at the shins.
(c) Squatting naked on the ground.
(d) A stick held between the arms and knees.

3. The cotton picking season began when?
(a) Latter part of July.
(b) Beginning of September.
(c) Latter part of June.
(d) Latter part of August.

4. Which of the following is NOT a reason a slave owner might sell a slave?
(a) Slave-breeding.
(b) To free himself of a personal or business debt.
(c) Unmanageable slaves.
(d) He wanted to try buying new slaves.

5. What happened to the children who were captured with their mothers and brought aboard the slave ship?
(a) They were separated from their mothers and thrown overboard into the water.
(b) They were strangled in front of their mothers' eyes as a lesson in obedience.
(c) They were separated from their mothers and kept in another location.
(d) They were taken aboard another ship meant only for slave children.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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."

2. What percentage of the South owned no slaves?

3. What item was used to discipline slaves?

4. How was a slave identified?

5. Once the slaves left the field, what did they do?

(see the answer key)

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