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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. Who said, "Judge Miller! Don't you bid for me, 'cause if you do, I would not live on your plantation. I will take a knife and cut my own throat from ear to ear before I would be owned by you."?
(a) Alice Johnson.
(b) Eliza.
(c) Delicia Patterson.
(d) Annonymous.

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

3. Which was the highest slave-breeding state?
(a) Mississippi.
(b) Maryland.
(c) Georgia.
(d) Virginia.

4. What is the name of the early nineteenth century slave who heard stories of Africa from his grandfather and later wrote an autobiography?
(a) Charlie Ball.
(b) Charles Ball.
(c) Charles Bale.
(d) Charlie Bale.

5. What was the second group of people that the colonists tried to use for manual labor?
(a) Rich whites.
(b) Indians.
(c) Poor whites, prisoners, and debtors.
(d) Africans.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where did some of the most emotional scenes of slave trading take place?

3. What was Henry Johnson's account about slavery?

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

5. What exactly happened at the occasion of a young slave woman named Eliza?

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