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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 percentage of the South owned no slaves?
(a) 75%.
(b) 25%.
(c) 60%.
(d) 50%.

2. What is a third way early slave trades were carried out?
(a) Slave traders started fights with Africans, making bets that if the Africans lost, they would have to become slaves.
(b) African chiefs were tricked into "loaning out" tribesmen as indentured servants.
(c) Slave traders would drug Africans and steal them.
(d) African chiefs made deals with one another to trade their own tribesmen and prisoners to the white traders for goods.

3. During which months were the slave coffles usually seen?
(a) October to May.
(b) May to October.
(c) September to March.
(d) March to September.

4. The cotton picking season began when?
(a) Latter part of June.
(b) Beginning of September.
(c) Latter part of August.
(d) Latter part of July.

5. How did Frank Cooper realize his Mammy used to be a slave?
(a) He saw the old scars on her back.
(b) He found her freedom papers.
(c) He saw the cuts on her legs.
(d) He saw how rough her hands were.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the second group of people that the colonists tried to use for manual labor?

2. What was the typical work hours for a slave who worked in the field?

3. What did some drivers, like Platt, become experienced at?

4. What was one principal item for which slaves were traded for?

5. What is one way early slave trades were carried out?

(see the answer key)

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