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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. How did Frank Cooper realize his Mammy used to be a slave?
(a) He saw the cuts on her legs.
(b) He saw how rough her hands were.
(c) He saw the old scars on her back.
(d) He found her freedom papers.

2. 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) Roberta Manson.
(c) Henry Johnson.
(d) Ida Hutchinson.

3. What was Henry Johnson's account about slavery?
(a) His grandmother whipped him to show him what being a slave felt like.
(b) He was thrown in a buck and whipped.
(c) He was a driver who was lenient with the whip.
(d) He and other slaves were forced by their master to steal cattle from other slave owners.

4. 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 started fights with Africans, making bets that if the Africans lost, they would have to become slaves.
(c) The slave traders lied to the Africans, telling them they would be indentured servants instead of slaves.
(d) Slave traders asked the Africans to visit their ship then captured them.

5. What was one cause of death of the Africans aboard the slave ship?
(a) Drowning.
(b) Suffocation.
(c) Starvation.
(d) Murder.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. From where did the first American-built slave ship sail from?

4. Approximately how many Africans were taken from their continent during the years of slave trade?

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

(see the answer key)

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