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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. Who said the following: "We never heard our names scarcely at all. First young man I went with wanted to know my initials! What did I know 'bout initials?"
(a) Sallie Crane.
(b) Charles Ball.
(c) Charley Williams.
(d) Annonymous.

2. Who said this in their account of slavery: "They never got nary a lick of labor and nary a red penny for any of them babies."?
(a) Henry Johnson.
(b) Ella Wilson.
(c) Roberta Manson.
(d) Ida Hutchinson.

3. 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) Jenny Proctor.
(b) Annonymous.
(c) Delicia Patterson.
(d) Henson.

4. Most of the time when a slave was going to be __________, he/she _____________ know about it in advance.
(a) bred; did.
(b) sold; did not.
(c) bred; did not.
(d) sold; did.

5. Many of the white men and black slave children had what sort of unique bond, though not always acknowledged?
(a) Father and son/daughter.
(b) Master and slave.
(c) Father and slave.
(d) Master and servant.

Short Answer Questions

1. The slave trading was much like today's ____________________.

2. Approximately how many Africans were taken from their continent during the years of slave trade?

3. Slaves knew they were enslaved because of what two reasons?

4. The cotton picking season began when?

5. How did Frank Cooper realize his Mammy used to be a slave?

(see the answer key)

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