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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. 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.

2. How was slavery in the United States different than slavery in other countries?
(a) Slavery in the United States allowed some slaves to be set free.
(b) Slavery in the United States was far more cruel and culture-destroying than the others.
(c) Slavery in the United States was far more lenient in the way slaves were treated.
(d) Slavery in the United States did not allow slaves to have families.

3. 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 overseer.
(d) The slave owner's child.

4. What was the area on the slave trading boat called where the Africans were held and chained together?
(a) Slave dinghy.
(b) Slave dungeon.
(c) Slave galley.
(d) Slave holding.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why were the Africans finally selected by the colonists to be slaves?

3. How was Frank Cooper and his sister given a taste of slavery?

4. What happened to the children who were captured with their mothers and brought aboard the slave ship?

5. Slaves knew they were enslaved because of what two reasons?

(see the answer key)

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