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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 event set off a large amount of slave selling?
(a) The death of many slaves due to the unconditionally hot weather in the summer.
(b) The death of many slave owners due to the plague.
(c) The election of Abraham Lincoln as President.
(d) The nomination of Abraham Lincoln as President.

2. What was one principal item for which slaves were traded for?
(a) Weapons.
(b) Furniture.
(c) Yams.
(d) Liquor.

3. How was slavery in the United States different than slavery in other countries?
(a) Slavery in the United States did not allow slaves to have families.
(b) Slavery in the United States allowed some slaves to be set free.
(c) Slavery in the United States was far more cruel and culture-destroying than the others.
(d) Slavery in the United States was far more lenient in the way slaves were treated.

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

5. In Chapter 2, who was free man who was captured and put into slavery?
(a) Ben Simpson.
(b) Lorenzo Ivy.
(c) Solomon Northup.
(d) Charles Ball.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. 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."?

3. How was Frank Cooper and his sister given a taste of slavery?

4. Many of the white men and black slave children had what sort of unique bond, though not always acknowledged?

5. Once the slaves left the field, what did they do?

(see the answer key)

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