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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 1, To Be a Slave.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Which of the following were not one of the people who would administer a whipping to a slave?
(a) The slave owner.
(b) The slave owner's wife.
(c) The slave owner's child.
(d) The overseer.

3. Who said this in their account of slavery: "They never got nary a lick of labor and nary a red penny for any of them babies."?
(a) Ella Wilson.
(b) Ida Hutchinson.
(c) Henry Johnson.
(d) Roberta Manson.

4. Who describes being thrown in a buck and whipped?
(a) Henry Johnson.
(b) Ella Wilson.
(c) Ida Hutchinson.
(d) West Turner.

5. What is another way early slave trades were carried out?
(a) The slave traders made pacts with African tribal chiefs to trade slaves for goods.
(b) Slave traders asked the Africans to visit their ship then captured them.
(c) Slave traders started fights with Africans, making bets that if the Africans lost, they would have to become slaves.
(d) The slave traders lied to the Africans, telling them they would be indentured servants instead of slaves.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who said the following: "They whipped my father 'cause he looked at a slave they killed and cried."

2. What was the title for the trusted slave that would often help administer whippings to other slaves?

3. Which person fits the author's description of the type of slave that was "so enslaved that once slavery had ended, they were sorry"?

4. A buck position consisted of all of the following except....

5. Mammy referred to her slave days as what?

(see the answer key)

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