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

2. What was the weigh-in time?
(a) Slaves had to have their baskets full of crop weighed at the end of each day to ensure they were doing their work.
(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 help their masters weigh the items they owned because each slave was allowed only a certain weight limit for personal objects.

3. ____________ 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.
(a) Slave-selling.
(b) Slave-auctioning.
(c) Slave-collecting.
(d) Slave-breeding.

4. How many lashes would a slave receive for something like a broken branch in the field or a dry leaf in the cotton?
(a) 25.
(b) 15.
(c) 20.
(d) 30.

5. This former President furnished his slave homes in the more typical fashion:
(a) James Madison.
(b) George Washington.
(c) John Adams.
(d) Thomas Jefferson.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Mammy referred to her slave days as what?

3. Who said the following: "They whipped my father 'cause he looked at a slave they killed and cried."

4. What was a third reason Africans appealed to the colonists as slaves?

5. Why did the emotional scenes during slave trades occur?

(see the answer key)

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