To Be a Slave Quiz | Eight Week Quiz E

Julius Lester
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 152 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

To Be a Slave Quiz | Eight Week Quiz E

Julius Lester
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 152 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5, Resistance to Slavery - 2.

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's wife.
(b) The slave owner.
(c) The overseer.
(d) The slave owner's child.

2. What event set off a large amount of slave selling?
(a) The death of many slave owners due to the plague.
(b) The death of many slaves due to the unconditionally hot weather in the summer.
(c) The election of Abraham Lincoln as President.
(d) The nomination of Abraham Lincoln as President.

3. 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 were susceptible to several diseases in the New World and many died quickly.
(c) They felt that because they too were white, that they deserved equal treatment and refused to work.
(d) They were lazy and did not do their required work well.

4. 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 by some free blacks and then freed herself.
(c) Eliza was bought by the master who owned her family.
(d) Eliza was bought and freed by a man from New York.

5. Why did the emotional scenes during slave trades occur?
(a) Slave families rejoiced at being bought together.
(b) Slave families were being split apart.
(c) Slaves didn't agree with the price they were being sold for.
(d) Slaves did not want to part from their original masters.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who tells the story of the slave named Paul?

2. Who said the following: "I have never seen or heard from her from that day to this. I loved her as I love my life."

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

4. How was a slave identified?

5. During the late 18th and 19th centuries, what was a second way slaves escaped from slavery?

(see the answer key)

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