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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. Who told the account of a man named Gabe?
(a) Henry Johnson.
(b) Alice Johnson.
(c) Ida Hutchinson.
(d) West Turner.

2. What was it about the African civilizations that made it easier for colonists to use the Africans more easily?
(a) The African civilizations were different which made the American way more inticing.
(b) African civilizations were highly developed with economic and political institutions, not unlike the American's own growing economy.
(c) The African civilization was uncouth and therefore it was easier to teach them how to be a slave.
(d) African civilizations encouraged traveling overseas.

3. What happened to the children who were captured with their mothers and brought aboard the slave ship?
(a) They were taken aboard another ship meant only for slave children.
(b) They were strangled in front of their mothers' eyes as a lesson in obedience.
(c) They were separated from their mothers and thrown overboard into the water.
(d) They were separated from their mothers and kept in another location.

4. Who was the slave who did not agree with slavery but felt that doing the job right was the proper way of doing things?
(a) William Hayden.
(b) Josiah Henson.
(c) West Turner.
(d) Charles Ball.

5. What was Franklin and Armfield?
(a) The largest slave-freeing group.
(b) The largest slave-trading firm.
(c) The largest slave-breeding plantation.
(d) The largest slave-buying firm.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Frank Cooper realize his Mammy used to be a slave?

2. Who was the slave who led an insurrection mentioned in Chapter 5?

3. How was slavery in the United States different than slavery in other countries?

4. Slave traders chained slaves together in a line in what was called a _________________.

5. What did Solomon Northup almost do?

(see the answer key)

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