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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 was another cause of death of the Africans aboard the slave ship?
(a) Poison.
(b) Fighting each other to the death.
(c) Suicide.
(d) Murder.

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

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

4. What was the purpose of the three bells worn by Paul above his head?
(a) Anyone who heard the jingling would get scared and run away.
(b) His master used it as a means of finding him if he ran away.
(c) When he hung himself, animals approaching his body would be scared away at the sound.
(d) To have something to use as an instrument for music when he was alone.

5. Chapter 5 portrays which of the following themes?
(a) Freedom.
(b) Determination.
(c) Faith.
(d) Loyalty.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the President of the Confederacy?

2. Which of the following was NOT a reason slaves would sneak off into the woods during nights?

3. The cotton picking season began when?

4. How was slavery in the United States different than slavery in other countries?

5. This former President furnished his slave homes in the more typical fashion:

(see the answer key)

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