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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. From where did the first American-built slave ship sail from?
(a) Jamestown.
(b) Massachusetts.
(c) Maryland.
(d) Plymouth Rock.

2. What is one way early slave trades were carried out?
(a) The slave traders would lie in wait for the Africans then capture them.
(b) Slave traders asked the Africans to visit their ship then captured them.
(c) Slave traders tranquilized Africans, then captured them.
(d) Slave traders would drug Africans and steal them.

3. Whose account supports the author's claim that slave traders often used tricks to make the slaves appear well-groomed and healthy for the day of the auction?
(a) Henson.
(b) Delicia Patterson.
(c) Annonymous.
(d) Jenny Proctor.

4. 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) Charles Ball.
(b) Charley Williams.
(c) Sallie Crane.
(d) Annonymous.

5. What was the title for the trusted slave that would often help administer whippings to other slaves?
(a) The slave trader.
(b) The slave owner.
(c) The driver.
(d) The overseer.

Short Answer Questions

1. Many of the white men and black slave children had what sort of unique bond, though not always acknowledged?

2. What was the only thing the slaves were given to eat on board the slave ship?

3. What happened to the children who were captured with their mothers and brought aboard the slave ship?

4. What was the main lesson that Byrl Anderson learned from his Master?

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

(see the answer key)

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