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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7, After Emancipation.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. In Chapter 2, who was free man who was captured and put into slavery?
(a) Lorenzo Ivy.
(b) Solomon Northup.
(c) Charles Ball.
(d) Ben Simpson.
2. In which figure did slaves find a form of camaraderie?
(a) Abraham Lincoln
(b) Jesus Christ
(c) Abraham
(d) Thomas Jefferson
3. What was the purpose of the three bells worn by Paul above his head?
(a) His master used it as a means of finding him if he ran away.
(b) When he hung himself, animals approaching his body would be scared away at the sound.
(c) Anyone who heard the jingling would get scared and run away.
(d) To have something to use as an instrument for music when he was alone.
4. What was the weigh-in time?
(a) Slaves had to help their masters weigh the items they owned because each slave was allowed only a certain weight limit for personal objects.
(b) Slaves had to have their baskets full of crop weighed at the end of each day to ensure they were doing their work.
(c) Slaves had to have their baskets full of cotton weighed at the end of each day.
(d) Slaves had to have themselves weighed at the end of each day in case they were getting too much to eat.
5. Who said, "I wanted to go back but I had no way."
(a) Mittie Freeman.
(b) Frank Fikes.
(c) Alice Wilkins.
(d) Jake Goodridge.
Short Answer Questions
1. What was the main purpose of the white terrorist group that had formed at the end of the Civil War?
2. How many lashes would a slave receive for something like a broken branch in the field or a dry leaf in the cotton?
3. What was the second group of people that the colonists tried to use for manual labor?
4. Why were many of the slaves forced to remain on the plantations during the Civil War?
5. What was the title for the trusted slave that would often help administer whippings to other slaves?
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