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

2. Who was the largest slave trader in Memphis, Tennessee?
(a) Nathan Bedford Forrest
(b) Doc Daniel Dowdy
(c) Moses Grandy
(d) West Turner

3. Who said the following: "You want to know what they did in slavery times. They were doing just what they do know."?
(a) Roberta Manson.
(b) Alice Johnson.
(c) Sallie Crane.
(d) Anonymous.

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

5. To whom did the "Uncle Toms" refer to?
(a) The slave traders.
(b) The field workers.
(c) The slave owners.
(d) The house servants.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. 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."

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

4. Slaves knew they were enslaved because of what two reasons?

5. What did the overseers term the slaves' acts of ignorance?

(see the answer key)

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