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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 was one cause of death of the Africans aboard the slave ship?
(a) Starvation.
(b) Suffocation.
(c) Drowning.
(d) Murder.

2. Approximately how many Africans were taken from their continent during the years of slave trade?
(a) Ten billion.
(b) Fifty million.
(c) Fifty billion.
(d) Ten million.

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

4. What was the weigh-in time?
(a) Slaves had to help their masters weigh the items they owned because each slave was allowed only a certain weight limit for personal objects.
(b) Slaves had to have their baskets full of cotton weighed at the end of each day.
(c) Slaves had to have themselves weighed at the end of each day in case they were getting too much to eat.
(d) Slaves had to have their baskets full of crop weighed at the end of each day to ensure they were doing their work.

5. Which person fits the author's description of the type of slave that was "so enslaved that once slavery had ended, they were sorry"?
(a) Byrl Anderson.
(b) Annonymous.
(c) Alice Johnson.
(d) Charley Williams.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following were not one of the people who would administer a whipping to a slave?

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

3. What animals did the master who taught his son to call him "Papa" use to teach his black son and white son about brotherhood?

4. How much time did the slaves typically get for a break?

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.

(see the answer key)

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