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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7, After Emancipation.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are the two ways that a man can be enslaved?
(a) Brainwashing and money.
(b) Force and money.
(c) Brainwashing and trickery.
(d) Force and brainwashing.

2. What item was used to discipline slaves?
(a) A pitchfork.
(b) A whip.
(c) A leather thong.
(d) A gun.

3. What did some of the slave owners do when freedom was declared?
(a) They killed their slaves so they could not have freedom.
(b) They gave their slaves homes to live in.
(c) They did not tell their slaves they were free.
(d) They paid their slaves before letting them go.

4. Slavery was abolished but what was the new term for the new treatment of blacks?
(a) Separation.
(b) Segregation.
(c) Renewed slavery.
(d) Emancipation.

5. What was the second group of people that the colonists tried to use for manual labor?
(a) Africans.
(b) Indians.
(c) Rich whites.
(d) Poor whites, prisoners, and debtors.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. What stinging word did the slaves take and make their own to lessen its effects?

3. After working for a "share" for a while, what ended up happening to many of the ex-slaves?

4. Which of the following is NOT something the slaves did when they heard of their freedom?

5. Approximately how many Africans were taken from their continent during the years of slave trade?

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