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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 one cause of death of the Africans aboard the slave ship?
(a) Starvation.
(b) Suffocation.
(c) Drowning.
(d) Murder.

2. What did some drivers, like Platt, become experienced at?
(a) Encouraging the masters to not be present during whippings so that he could fake it instead.
(b) Whipping the other slaves throughly but not to the point of death.
(c) Handling the whip so well that he could get the whipping done very quickly.
(d) Handling the whip such that when he was ordered to whip a slave, he could make it look real without actually hitting the slave.

3. 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) Charles Ball.
(b) Charley Williams.
(c) Annonymous.
(d) Sallie Crane.

4. What was the second group of people that the colonists tried to use for manual labor?
(a) Indians.
(b) Africans.
(c) Poor whites, prisoners, and debtors.
(d) Rich whites.

5. Approximately how many Africans were taken from their continent during the years of slave trade?
(a) Fifty billion.
(b) Ten billion.
(c) Fifty million.
(d) Ten million.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the advantage to a slave for being sold in an auction that took place in his area?

2. What was a third reason Africans appealed to the colonists as slaves?

3. Who was the largest slave trader in Memphis, Tennessee?

4. Most of the time when a slave was going to be __________, he/she _____________ know about it in advance.

5. What was the weigh-in time?

(see the answer key)

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