1. What was the weigh-in time?
(a) Slaves had to have themselves weighed at the end of each day in case they were getting too much to eat.
(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 help their masters weigh the items they owned because each slave was allowed only a certain weight limit for personal objects.
(d) Slaves had to have their baskets full of cotton weighed at the end of each day.

2. How did many blacks feel about Harriet Beecher Stowe?
(a) They didn't care either way.
(b) They felt she was a good writer.
(c) They did not like her.
(d) They loved her.

3. Why did blacks feel that Lincoln did not deserve the praise he received?
(a) They were mad at him for being shot before his presidency ended.
(b) They felt that Lincoln should have given them government money.
(c) They did not feel that Lincoln really freed them.
(d) They felt that Lincoln should have offered them free education.

4. This former President furnished his slave homes in the more typical fashion:
(a) John Adams.
(b) James Madison.
(c) George Washington.
(d) Thomas Jefferson.

5. What is another way early slave trades were carried out?
(a) The slave traders made pacts with African tribal chiefs to trade slaves for goods.
(b) The slave traders lied to the Africans, telling them they would be indentured servants instead of slaves.
(c) Slave traders asked the Africans to visit their ship then captured them.
(d) Slave traders started fights with Africans, making bets that if the Africans lost, they would have to become slaves.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who said, "Judge Miller! Don't you bid for me, 'cause if you do, I would not live on your plantation. I will take a knife and cut my own throat from ear to ear before I would be owned by you."?

2. What year did the Civil War begin?

3. What did some drivers, like Platt, become experienced at?

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

5. What was it about the African civilizations that made it easier for colonists to use the Africans more easily?

(see the answer key)

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