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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

2. Who was the largest slave trader in Memphis, Tennessee?
(a) Moses Grandy
(b) West Turner
(c) Doc Daniel Dowdy
(d) Nathan Bedford Forrest

3. Who was the group which argued for "forty acres and a mule" for every ex-slave?
(a) The Whigs.
(b) The Unions.
(c) Radical Democrats.
(d) Radical Republicans.

4. How many whites were killed in the slave insurrection mentioned in Chapter 5?
(a) More than one hundred.
(b) More than sixty.
(c) Less than thirty.
(d) Less than sixty.

5. Where did the South surrender to the North?
(a) Gettysburg.
(b) Appomattax.
(c) Antietam.
(d) Manassas.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Henry Johnson's account about slavery?

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 year did the slave insurrection that is mentioned in Chapter 5 take place?

4. Most of the time when a slave was going to be __________, he/she _____________ know about it in advance.

5. What was the purpose of Julius Lester compiling slave narrations and writing "To Be a Slave?"

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