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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 the title for a poor white who was hired to watch over the slaves as they worked and ensure they weren't lazy or try to run away?
(a) The slave trader.
(b) The overseer.
(c) The slave owner.
(d) The driver.

2. Whose account supports the author's claim that slave traders often used tricks to make the slaves appear well-groomed and healthy for the day of the auction?
(a) Annonymous.
(b) Henson.
(c) Delicia Patterson.
(d) Jenny Proctor.

3. Mammy referred to her slave days as what?
(a) The "misery days."
(b) The "weary days."
(c) The "hell days."
(d) The "scornful days."

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

5. What was the main plant that was in need of constant care by the slaves?
(a) Corn.
(b) Rice.
(c) Cotton.
(d) Wheat.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 2, who was free man who was captured and put into slavery?

2. What was the area on the slave trading boat called where the Africans were held and chained together?

3. Which country introduced Africans to Europe in the early sixteenth century?

4. This former President furnished his slave homes in the more typical fashion:

5. What happened to the children who were captured with their mothers and brought aboard the slave ship?

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