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

2. In Chapter 2, who was free man who was captured and put into slavery?
(a) Solomon Northup.
(b) Ben Simpson.
(c) Charles Ball.
(d) Lorenzo Ivy.

3. Who told the account of a man named Gabe?
(a) Henry Johnson.
(b) Alice Johnson.
(c) West Turner.
(d) Ida Hutchinson.

4. What was a third reason Africans appealed to the colonists as slaves?
(a) They were eager and willing workers.
(b) They were diligent workers.
(c) There was a never-ending supply.
(d) They were hard and diligent workers, they did not attempt many escapes, and they did not have to be paid.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. What event set off a large amount of slave selling?

2. Mammy referred to her slave days as what?

3. How did Frank Cooper realize his Mammy used to be a slave?

4. This second group of people were not slaves but rather called __________________.

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

(see the answer key)

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