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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. A buck position consisted of all of the following except....
(a) Squatting naked on the ground.
(b) Face being stuck in the ground.
(c) Hands being tied together at the shins.
(d) A stick held between the arms and knees.

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

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

4. What animals did the master who taught his son to call him "Papa" use to teach his black son and white son about brotherhood?
(a) Sheep.
(b) Pigs.
(c) Goats.
(d) Chickens.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What was the only thing the slaves were given to eat on board the slave ship?

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

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

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