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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2, The Auction Block.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whose account is an example of a joyous occasion seen at the auction block?
(a) Doc Daniel Dowdy.
(b) Lou Smith.
(c) Prince Bee.
(d) Jenny Proctor.

2. The slave trading was much like today's ____________________.
(a) Real estate bids.
(b) Shopping centers.
(c) Car auctions.
(d) Stock market.

3. The job of a slaver trader was to sell the slave to the _____________.
(a) Most respected bidder.
(b) Highest bidder.
(c) Kindest master.
(d) Cruelest master.

4. This second group of people were not slaves but rather called __________________.
(a) Servants.
(b) Farmers.
(c) Laboreres.
(d) Indentured servants.

5. ____________ was the practice of slave owners which resulted in more children for next generation labor and an easy way to make a profit through sales.
(a) Slave-selling.
(b) Slave-breeding.
(c) Slave-collecting.
(d) Slave-auctioning.

Short Answer Questions

1. What event set off a large amount of slave selling?

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

3. Who said the following: "I have never seen or heard from her from that day to this. I loved her as I love my life."

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

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

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