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

2. A buck position consisted of all of the following except....
(a) Hands being tied together at the shins.
(b) Face being stuck in the ground.
(c) Squatting naked on the ground.
(d) A stick held between the arms and knees.

3. Which person fits the author's description of the type of slave that was "so enslaved that once slavery had ended, they were sorry"?
(a) Charley Williams.
(b) Alice Johnson.
(c) Byrl Anderson.
(d) Annonymous.

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

5. What is true about slaves and their living on plantations?
(a) Most slaves were exchanged between plantation owners of the same area so that they were somewhere different every few months.
(b) Most slaves were able to choose which plantations they wanted to live on for the remainder of their lives.
(c) Most slaves would live on at least two, and many times more, plantations throughout their life.
(d) Most slaves lived one one plantation througout their life.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a third way early slave trades were carried out?

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."?

3. This second group of people were not slaves but rather called __________________.

4. Why did the attempt to use this first group of people for manual labor fail for the English Colonists?

5. What was the title for the trusted slave that would often help administer whippings to other slaves?

(see the answer key)

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