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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 year did the Civil War begin?
(a) 1861.
(b) 1816.
(c) 1826.
(d) 1866.

2. What did some drivers, like Platt, become experienced at?
(a) Handling the whip such that when he was ordered to whip a slave, he could make it look real without actually hitting the slave.
(b) Handling the whip so well that he could get the whipping done very quickly.
(c) Whipping the other slaves throughly but not to the point of death.
(d) Encouraging the masters to not be present during whippings so that he could fake it instead.

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

4. Why did the emotional scenes during slave trades occur?
(a) Slave families rejoiced at being bought together.
(b) Slaves didn't agree with the price they were being sold for.
(c) Slave families were being split apart.
(d) Slaves did not want to part from their original masters.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When the slaves went down for bed, what did they fear?

2. The slave trading was much like today's ____________________.

3. Most of the time when a slave was going to be __________, he/she _____________ know about it in advance.

4. Some slaves preferred what over being captured after running away?

5. Which of the following were not one of the people who would administer a whipping to a slave?

(see the answer key)

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