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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 stinging word did the slaves take and make their own to lessen its effects?
(a) Nigger.
(b) Creature.
(c) Black.
(d) Negro.

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

3. 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 taken aboard another ship meant only for slave children.
(c) They were separated from their mothers and kept in another location.
(d) They were strangled in front of their mothers' eyes as a lesson in obedience.

4. What did the overseers term the slaves' acts of ignorance?
(a) Stupid.
(b) Rascality.
(c) Sickening.
(d) A disease.

5. Why were Native African slaves more fortunate than slaves born into slavery?
(a) They could speak a different language.
(b) They had somewhere to go if they managed to escape.
(c) They could tell stories to entertain their masters.
(d) They had a former life and knew something other than slavery.

Short Answer Questions

1. What were house servants led to believe?

2. What is the name of the early nineteenth century slave who heard stories of Africa from his grandfather and later wrote an autobiography?

3. Who was the slave who did not agree with slavery but felt that doing the job right was the proper way of doing things?

4. What is one way early slave trades were carried out?

5. What was the advantage to a slave for being sold in an auction that took place in his area?

(see the answer key)

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