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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 it about the African civilizations that made it easier for colonists to use the Africans more easily?
(a) The African civilizations were different which made the American way more inticing.
(b) African civilizations encouraged traveling overseas.
(c) The African civilization was uncouth and therefore it was easier to teach them how to be a slave.
(d) African civilizations were highly developed with economic and political institutions, not unlike the American's own growing economy.

2. What did the slaves call the slave owner's house?
(a) Master's Row.
(b) The House.
(c) Master's House.
(d) The Big House.

3. What was a third reason Africans appealed to the colonists as slaves?
(a) They were hard and diligent workers, they did not attempt many escapes, and they did not have to be paid.
(b) There was a never-ending supply.
(c) They were diligent workers.
(d) They were eager and willing workers.

4. What was Henry Johnson's account about slavery?
(a) He and other slaves were forced by their master to steal cattle from other slave owners.
(b) His grandmother whipped him to show him what being a slave felt like.
(c) He was a driver who was lenient with the whip.
(d) He was thrown in a buck and whipped.

5. Which of the following were not one of the people who would administer a whipping to a slave?
(a) The slave owner's wife.
(b) The overseer.
(c) The slave owner's child.
(d) The slave owner.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. If a slave did not have the correct weigh-in amount, what was the consequence?

3. What was the slave's "home" called?

4. What was the only thing the slaves were given to eat on board the slave ship?

5. 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."?

(see the answer key)

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