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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 country introduced Africans to Europe in the early sixteenth century?
(a) England.
(b) Spain.
(c) Portugal.
(d) Netherlands.

2. During which months were the slave coffles usually seen?
(a) March to September.
(b) September to March.
(c) May to October.
(d) October to May.

3. What is a third way early slave trades were carried out?
(a) African chiefs were tricked into "loaning out" tribesmen as indentured servants.
(b) Slave traders would drug Africans and steal them.
(c) African chiefs made deals with one another to trade their own tribesmen and prisoners to the white traders for goods.
(d) Slave traders started fights with Africans, making bets that if the Africans lost, they would have to become slaves.

4. What was the only thing the slaves were given to eat on board the slave ship?
(a) Bread and cheese.
(b) Potatoes.
(c) Cabbage.
(d) Yams.

5. What was the title for the trusted slave that would often help administer whippings to other slaves?
(a) The slave trader.
(b) The overseer.
(c) The driver.
(d) The slave owner.

Short Answer Questions

1. In southern society, a man's status was based upon:

2. Mammy referred to her slave days as what?

3. From where did the first American-built slave ship sail from?

4. 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."?

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

(see the answer key)

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