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

2. What is one way early slave trades were carried out?
(a) Slave traders tranquilized Africans, then captured them.
(b) Slave traders would drug Africans and steal them.
(c) The slave traders would lie in wait for the Africans then capture them.
(d) Slave traders asked the Africans to visit their ship then captured them.

3. What item was used to discipline slaves?
(a) A whip.
(b) A pitchfork.
(c) A gun.
(d) A leather thong.

4. What is the first group of people that the colonists tried out as slaves?
(a) Africans.
(b) Whites.
(c) Chinese.
(d) Indians.

5. Which person fits the author's description of the type of slave that was "so enslaved that once slavery had ended, they were sorry"?
(a) Byrl Anderson.
(b) Alice Johnson.
(c) Charley Williams.
(d) Annonymous.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What animals did the master who taught his son to call him "Papa" use to teach his black son and white son about brotherhood?

3. What was the name of the white man who taught his black son to call him "Papa" instead of "Master?"

4. Who said the following: "You want to know what they did in slavery times. They were doing just what they do know."?

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

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