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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 term was used for noted places of refuge for runaways?
(a) The Big House.
(b) The Runaway House.
(c) The Pine Woods.
(d) The Dismal Swamps.

2. What was the weigh-in time?
(a) Slaves had to have themselves weighed at the end of each day in case they were getting too much to eat.
(b) Slaves had to have their baskets full of cotton weighed at the end of each day.
(c) Slaves had to have their baskets full of crop weighed at the end of each day to ensure they were doing their work.
(d) Slaves had to help their masters weigh the items they owned because each slave was allowed only a certain weight limit for personal objects.

3. What exactly happened at the occasion of a young slave woman named Eliza?
(a) Eliza was bought and freed by a man from New York.
(b) Eliza was bought by the master who owned her family.
(c) Eliza was bought by a kind master.
(d) Eliza was bought by some free blacks and then freed herself.

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

5. When was the only time slaves got a few days to a week off?
(a) Hannukah.
(b) Kawanza.
(c) Thanksgiving.
(d) Christmas.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 2, who was free man who was captured and put into slavery?

2. During the late 18th and 19th centuries, what was one of the ways slaves escaped from slavery?

3. Why did the attempt to use this second group of people also fail for the English colonists?

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

5. What is another way early slave trades were carried out?

(see the answer key)

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