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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3, The Plantation.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did some drivers, like Platt, become experienced at?
(a) Handling the whip so well that he could get the whipping done very quickly.
(b) Whipping the other slaves throughly but not to the point of death.
(c) Handling the whip such that when he was ordered to whip a slave, he could make it look real without actually hitting the slave.
(d) Encouraging the masters to not be present during whippings so that he could fake it instead.

2. Slaves knew they were enslaved because of what two reasons?
(a) Free labor and money resulting from it and selling slaves.
(b) Free labor and the large supply of blacks.
(c) Stealing from other slave owners and free labor.
(d) Money from selling slaves and stealing from other slave owners.

3. From where did the first American-built slave ship sail from?
(a) Jamestown.
(b) Massachusetts.
(c) Maryland.
(d) Plymouth Rock.

4. What was Henry Johnson's account about slavery?
(a) His grandmother whipped him to show him what being a slave felt like.
(b) He was a driver who was lenient with the whip.
(c) He was thrown in a buck and whipped.
(d) He and other slaves were forced by their master to steal cattle from other slave owners.

5. What was the reason for the months that slave traders chose to have slave coffles?
(a) The weather made it easier to hold auctions.
(b) It was the time that slave owners preferred to work.
(c) It was the time plantation work was the heaviest so slave owners needed new hardworking slaves.
(d) It was the time that plantation work was the lightest and new slaves could adjust.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the first group of people that the colonists tried out as slaves?

2. Complete the author's sentence: "They were not slaves. They were people. Their condition was _______________."

3. Why did the attempt to use this first group of people for manual labor fail for the English Colonists?

4. 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."?

5. In southern society, a man's status was based upon:

(see the answer key)

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