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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. Most of the time when a slave was going to be __________, he/she _____________ know about it in advance.
(a) bred; did not.
(b) sold; did not.
(c) bred; did.
(d) sold; did.

2. What is true about slaves and their living on plantations?
(a) Most slaves were able to choose which plantations they wanted to live on for the remainder of their lives.
(b) Most slaves would live on at least two, and many times more, plantations throughout their life.
(c) Most slaves were exchanged between plantation owners of the same area so that they were somewhere different every few months.
(d) Most slaves lived one one plantation througout their life.

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

4. How was Frank Cooper and his sister given a taste of slavery?
(a) They were made to work on the fields for an entire day without food or drink.
(b) They had to call Mammy "Master".
(c) They had to work like a slave in the kitchens.
(d) They felt the harsh crack of the whip upon their backs from Mammy.

5. What was the area on the slave trading boat called where the Africans were held and chained together?
(a) Slave dinghy.
(b) Slave dungeon.
(c) Slave galley.
(d) Slave holding.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

4. Which was the highest slave-breeding state?

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."?

(see the answer key)

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