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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What did some drivers, like Platt, become experienced at?
(a) Encouraging the masters to not be present during whippings so that he could fake it instead.
(b) Whipping the other slaves throughly but not to the point of death.
(c) Handling the whip such that when he was ordered to whip a slave, he could make it look real without actually hitting the slave.
(d) Handling the whip so well that he could get the whipping done very quickly.

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

6. What exactly happened at the occasion of a young slave woman named Eliza?
(a) Eliza was bought by the master who owned her family.
(b) Eliza was bought by a kind master.
(c) Eliza was bought by some free blacks and then freed herself.
(d) Eliza was bought and freed by a man from New York.

7. 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 help their masters weigh the items they owned because each slave was allowed only a certain weight limit for personal objects.
(c) Slaves had to have their baskets full of cotton weighed at the end of each day.
(d) Slaves had to have their baskets full of crop weighed at the end of each day to ensure they were doing their work.

8. 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) Slave traders asked the Africans to visit their ship then captured them.
(c) The slave traders lied to the Africans, telling them they would be indentured servants instead of slaves.
(d) Slave traders started fights with Africans, making bets that if the Africans lost, they would have to become slaves.

9. What was the typical work hours for a slave who worked in the field?
(a) Mid-morning to midnight.
(b) Sunrise to sunset.
(c) Sunrise to nighttime.
(d) Sunrise to midnight.

10. Which person fits the author's description of the type of slave that was "so enslaved that once slavery had ended, they were sorry"?
(a) Charley Williams.
(b) Byrl Anderson.
(c) Alice Johnson.
(d) Annonymous.

11. During which months were the slave coffles usually seen?
(a) October to May.
(b) September to March.
(c) May to October.
(d) March to September.

12. What is one way early slave trades were carried out?
(a) Slave traders would drug Africans and steal them.
(b) Slave traders tranquilized Africans, then captured them.
(c) Slave traders asked the Africans to visit their ship then captured them.
(d) The slave traders would lie in wait for the Africans then capture them.

13. What was it about the African civilizations that made it easier for colonists to use the Africans more easily?
(a) African civilizations encouraged traveling overseas.
(b) African civilizations were highly developed with economic and political institutions, not unlike the American's own growing economy.
(c) The African civilization was uncouth and therefore it was easier to teach them how to be a slave.
(d) The African civilizations were different which made the American way more inticing.

14. The slave homes of this former President was a notable exception to the norm in terms of the condition of the homes:
(a) Thomas Jefferson.
(b) George Washington.
(c) John Adams.
(d) James Madison.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of the white man who taught his black son to call him "Papa" instead of "Master?"

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

3. Between the time that a slave was bought and sold by a trader, what happened to him?

4. Mammy referred to her slave days as what?

5. What animals did the master who taught his son to call him "Papa" use to teach his black son and white son about brotherhood?

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