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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 exactly happened at the occasion of a young slave woman named Eliza?
(a) Eliza was bought by a kind master.
(b) Eliza was bought and freed by a man from New York.
(c) Eliza was bought by the master who owned her family.
(d) Eliza was bought by some free blacks and then freed herself.

2. Why did the attempt to use this second group of people also fail for the English colonists?
(a) The seven year turnover meant a continued supply of new people and they could easily run away and blend in with other whites people.
(b) They felt that because they too were white, that they deserved equal treatment and refused to work.
(c) They were susceptible to several diseases in the New World and many died quickly.
(d) They were lazy and did not do their required work well.

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

4. The slave trading was much like today's ____________________.
(a) Real estate bids.
(b) Car auctions.
(c) Stock market.
(d) Shopping centers.

5. What was the area on the slave trading boat called where the Africans were held and chained together?
(a) Slave dungeon.
(b) Slave galley.
(c) Slave dinghy.
(d) Slave holding.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which country introduced Africans to Europe in the early sixteenth century?

2. ____________ was the practice of slave owners which resulted in more children for next generation labor and an easy way to make a profit through sales.

3. What happened to the children who were captured with their mothers and brought aboard the slave ship?

4. Whose account is an example of a joyous occasion seen at the auction block?

5. Which person fits the author's description of the type of slave that was "so enslaved that once slavery had ended, they were sorry"?

(see the answer key)

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