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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2, The Auction Block.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What exactly happened at the occasion of a young slave woman named Eliza?
(a) Eliza was bought by some free blacks and then freed herself.
(b) Eliza was bought by the master who owned her family.
(c) Eliza was bought and freed by a man from New York.
(d) Eliza was bought by a kind master.

2. The slave trading was much like today's ____________________.
(a) Shopping centers.
(b) Real estate bids.
(c) Stock market.
(d) Car auctions.

3. What is the name of the early nineteenth century slave who heard stories of Africa from his grandfather and later wrote an autobiography?
(a) Charles Ball.
(b) Charlie Bale.
(c) Charles Bale.
(d) Charlie Ball.

4. What was the only thing the slaves were given to eat on board the slave ship?
(a) Potatoes.
(b) Bread and cheese.
(c) Cabbage.
(d) Yams.

5. Who said the following: "We never heard our names scarcely at all. First young man I went with wanted to know my initials! What did I know 'bout initials?"
(a) Sallie Crane.
(b) Annonymous.
(c) Charley Williams.
(d) Charles Ball.

Short Answer Questions

1. During which months were the slave coffles usually seen?

2. What did some drivers, like Platt, become experienced at?

3. Who said the following: "You want to know what they did in slavery times. They were doing just what they do know."?

4. Slave traders chained slaves together in a line in what was called a _________________.

5. What was a second reason Africans appealed to the colonists as slaves?

(see the answer key)

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