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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why did the attempt to use this second group of people also fail for the English colonists?
(a) They were lazy and did not do their required work well.
(b) They felt that because they too were white, that they deserved equal treatment and refused to work.
(c) They were susceptible to several diseases in the New World and many died quickly.
(d) The seven year turnover meant a continued supply of new people and they could easily run away and blend in with other whites people.

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

3. What is a third way early slave trades were carried out?
(a) Slave traders would drug Africans and steal them.
(b) African chiefs made deals with one another to trade their own tribesmen and prisoners to the white traders for goods.
(c) African chiefs were tricked into "loaning out" tribesmen as indentured servants.
(d) Slave traders started fights with Africans, making bets that if the Africans lost, they would have to become slaves.

4. Who said the following: "We never heard our names scarcely at all. First young man I went with wanted to know my initials! What did I know 'bout initials?"
(a) Charley Williams.
(b) Annonymous.
(c) Charles Ball.
(d) Sallie Crane.

5. What item was used to discipline slaves?
(a) A leather thong.
(b) A gun.
(c) A whip.
(d) A pitchfork.

6. How was Frank Cooper and his sister given a taste of slavery?
(a) They had to work like a slave in the kitchens.
(b) They felt the harsh crack of the whip upon their backs from Mammy.
(c) They were made to work on the fields for an entire day without food or drink.
(d) They had to call Mammy "Master".

7. In Chapter 2, who was free man who was captured and put into slavery?
(a) Lorenzo Ivy.
(b) Charles Ball.
(c) Solomon Northup.
(d) Ben Simpson.

8. What is true about slaves and their living on plantations?
(a) Most slaves were exchanged between plantation owners of the same area so that they were somewhere different every few months.
(b) Most slaves were able to choose which plantations they wanted to live on for the remainder of their lives.
(c) Most slaves would live on at least two, and many times more, plantations throughout their life.
(d) Most slaves lived one one plantation througout their life.

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

10. What was another cause of death of the Africans aboard the slave ship?
(a) Suicide.
(b) Fighting each other to the death.
(c) Poison.
(d) Murder.

11. With whom did slave owners sometimes try to be gentle with before they bought them?
(a) Children.
(b) Young women.
(c) Young men.
(d) Old women.

12. The slave trading was much like today's ____________________.
(a) Shopping centers.
(b) Real estate bids.
(c) Stock market.
(d) Car auctions.

13. Why did the emotional scenes during slave trades occur?
(a) Slave families were being split apart.
(b) Slaves didn't agree with the price they were being sold for.
(c) Slave families rejoiced at being bought together.
(d) Slaves did not want to part from their original masters.

14. What was the only thing the slaves were given to eat on board the slave ship?
(a) Bread and cheese.
(b) Potatoes.
(c) Yams.
(d) Cabbage.

15. Who said the following: "I have never seen or heard from her from that day to this. I loved her as I love my life."
(a) Lou Smith.
(b) Mingo White.
(c) Prince Bee.
(d) Moses Grandy.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did the attempt to use this first group of people for manual labor fail for the English Colonists?

2. Which of the following were not one of the people who would administer a whipping to a slave?

3. ____________ was the practice of slave owners which resulted in more children for next generation labor and an easy way to make a profit through sales.

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

5. What was a second principal item for which slaves were traded for?

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