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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 another cause of death of the Africans aboard the slave ship?
(a) Poison.
(b) Suicide.
(c) Fighting each other to the death.
(d) Murder.

2. Complete the author's sentence: "They were not slaves. They were people. Their condition was _______________."
(a) Indentured servitude.
(b) Dire.
(c) Eternal servitutde.
(d) Slavery.

3. Who said the following: "They whipped my father 'cause he looked at a slave they killed and cried."
(a) Ella Wilson.
(b) Mingo White.
(c) Roberta Manson.
(d) Frank Cooper.

4. Who said the following: "We never heard our names scarcely at all. First young man I went with wanted to know my initials! What did I know 'bout initials?"
(a) Annonymous.
(b) Sallie Crane.
(c) Charles Ball.
(d) Charley Williams.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What was 'Ol Gabe known for?

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

4. How did Frank Cooper realize his Mammy used to be a slave?

5. What was a third reason Africans appealed to the colonists as slaves?

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