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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Epilogue.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did many blacks feel towards whites?
(a) They felt that whites should be the ones to give them money.
(b) They felt that the whites would always keep them down.
(c) They felt that whites would always treat them like slaves.
(d) They felt that whites would soon become their friends.

2. What did some of the slave owners do when freedom was declared?
(a) They gave their slaves homes to live in.
(b) They killed their slaves so they could not have freedom.
(c) They did not tell their slaves they were free.
(d) They paid their slaves before letting them go.

3. How was a slave identified?
(a) By his number.
(b) By his first name.
(c) By his master's last name.
(d) By his master's first name.

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

5. Whose account is an example of a joyous occasion seen at the auction block?
(a) Prince Bee.
(b) Lou Smith.
(c) Jenny Proctor.
(d) Doc Daniel Dowdy.

Short Answer Questions

1. During which months were the slave coffles usually seen?

2. What event set off a large amount of slave selling?

3. With whom did slave owners sometimes try to be gentle with before they bought them?

4. What was a second reason Africans appealed to the colonists as slaves?

5. What did the overseers term the slaves' acts of ignorance?

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