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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 the only thing the slaves were given to eat on board the slave ship?
(a) Bread and cheese.
(b) Yams.
(c) Potatoes.
(d) Cabbage.

2. What was a third reason Africans appealed to the colonists as slaves?
(a) They were eager and willing workers.
(b) They were diligent workers.
(c) There was a never-ending supply.
(d) They were hard and diligent workers, they did not attempt many escapes, and they did not have to be paid.

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) Delicia Patterson.
(b) Henson.
(c) Annonymous.
(d) Jenny Proctor.

4. Solomon Northup said which of the following?
(a) "Can I stay here tonight?"
(b) "But some of them would rather be shot than took, sir."
(c) "Life is dear to every living thing; the worm that crawls upon the ground with struggle for it. At that moment it was dear to me, enslaved and treated as I was."
(d) "You can sell me, last me, or kill me. I ain't caring which, but you can't make me work no more."

5. Mammy referred to her slave days as what?
(a) The "misery days."
(b) The "hell days."
(c) The "scornful days."
(d) The "weary days."

Short Answer Questions

1. Who told the account of a man named Gabe?

2. When slaves became freed, what was one constitutional power they were given?

3. What was Henry Johnson's account about slavery?

4. What was 'Ol Gabe known for?

5. What states did the Emancipation Proclamation affect when it was declared?

(see the answer key)

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