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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. What exactly happened at the occasion of a young slave woman named Eliza?
(a) Eliza was bought by some free blacks and then freed herself.
(b) Eliza was bought by the master who owned her family.
(c) Eliza was bought by a kind master.
(d) Eliza was bought and freed by a man from New York.

2. What was it about the African civilizations that made it easier for colonists to use the Africans more easily?
(a) The African civilization was uncouth and therefore it was easier to teach them how to be a slave.
(b) African civilizations encouraged traveling overseas.
(c) African civilizations were highly developed with economic and political institutions, not unlike the American's own growing economy.
(d) The African civilizations were different which made the American way more inticing.

3. Which of the following is NOT a reason a slave owner might sell a slave?
(a) To free himself of a personal or business debt.
(b) Slave-breeding.
(c) He wanted to try buying new slaves.
(d) Unmanageable slaves.

4. Whose account supports the author's claim that slave traders often used tricks to make the slaves appear well-groomed and healthy for the day of the auction?
(a) Annonymous.
(b) Henson.
(c) Delicia Patterson.
(d) Jenny Proctor.

5. What was the title for a poor white who was hired to watch over the slaves as they worked and ensure they weren't lazy or try to run away?
(a) The slave owner.
(b) The driver.
(c) The overseer.
(d) The slave trader.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the area on the slave trading boat called where the Africans were held and chained together?

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

3. Between the time that a slave was bought and sold by a trader, what happened to him?

4. Who was the largest slave trader in Memphis, Tennessee?

5. What was another cause of death of the Africans aboard the slave ship?

(see the answer key)

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