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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Complete the author's sentence: "They were not slaves. They were people. Their condition was _______________."
(a) Dire.
(b) Slavery.
(c) Indentured servitude.
(d) Eternal servitutde.

2. What event set off a large amount of slave selling?
(a) The nomination of Abraham Lincoln as President.
(b) The death of many slave owners due to the plague.
(c) The death of many slaves due to the unconditionally hot weather in the summer.
(d) The election of Abraham Lincoln as President.

3. What was the main lesson that Byrl Anderson learned from his Master?
(a) To always treat women respectfully.
(b) Work hard to earn a well-rewarding job.
(c) To never call him nor any other white man Master because all men, both black and white, are equal.
(d) To always love your brother honestly.

4. Who said the following: "You want to know what they did in slavery times. They were doing just what they do know."?
(a) Alice Johnson.
(b) Roberta Manson.
(c) Anonymous.
(d) Sallie Crane.

5. Where did some of the most emotional scenes of slave trading take place?
(a) At the Big House.
(b) At the foot of the auction block.
(c) At the new plantation.
(d) At the slave's home on the plantation.

6. What was a second principal item for which slaves were traded for?
(a) Several pounds of corn.
(b) Horses.
(c) Domesticated dogs.
(d) Yards of cotton.

7. What was a third reason Africans appealed to the colonists as slaves?
(a) They were diligent workers.
(b) There was a never-ending supply.
(c) They were eager and willing workers.
(d) They were hard and diligent workers, they did not attempt many escapes, and they did not have to be paid.

8. 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) Slaves did not want to part from their original masters.
(d) Slave families rejoiced at being bought together.

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

10. What was Henry Johnson's account about slavery?
(a) His grandmother whipped him to show him what being a slave felt like.
(b) He and other slaves were forced by their master to steal cattle from other slave owners.
(c) He was thrown in a buck and whipped.
(d) He was a driver who was lenient with the whip.

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

12. 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) Prince Bee.
(b) Lou Smith.
(c) Mingo White.
(d) Moses Grandy.

13. How many lashes would a slave receive for something like a broken branch in the field or a dry leaf in the cotton?
(a) 25.
(b) 20.
(c) 30.
(d) 15.

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

15. Slave traders chained slaves together in a line in what was called a _________________.
(a) Slave line-up.
(b) Slave coffle.
(c) Slave chain.
(d) Slave auction.

Short Answer Questions

1. In southern society, a man's status was based upon:

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

3. Approximately how many Africans were taken from their continent during the years of slave trade?

4. Whose account supports the author's claim that slave traders often used tricks to make the slaves appear well-groomed and healthy for the day of the auction?

5. What item was used to discipline slaves?

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