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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the title for a poor white who was hired to watch over the slaves as they worked and ensure they weren't lazy or try to run away?
(a) The driver.
(b) The overseer.
(c) The slave trader.
(d) The slave owner.

2. 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.

3. Slaves knew they were enslaved because of what two reasons?
(a) Free labor and the large supply of blacks.
(b) Money from selling slaves and stealing from other slave owners.
(c) Stealing from other slave owners and free labor.
(d) Free labor and money resulting from it and selling slaves.

4. What was 'Ol Gabe known for?
(a) He was an old driver who faked whippings when the master wasn't around.
(b) He did not like whippings so he stood up to the master and the master decided to stop the whippings.
(c) He did not like the idea of whippings so he faked it when he was told to whip a slave by the master.
(d) Anytime his master wanted a slave whipped, he would be the first to volunteer to administer the punishment.

5. The cotton picking season began when?
(a) Beginning of September.
(b) Latter part of July.
(c) Latter part of August.
(d) Latter part of June.

6. Which was the highest slave-breeding state?
(a) Virginia.
(b) Mississippi.
(c) Georgia.
(d) Maryland.

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

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

9. Which of the following were not one of the people who would administer a whipping to a slave?
(a) The slave owner's wife.
(b) The slave owner's child.
(c) The overseer.
(d) The slave owner.

10. What was one principal item for which slaves were traded for?
(a) Furniture.
(b) Weapons.
(c) Liquor.
(d) Yams.

11. 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 were made to work on the fields for an entire day without food or drink.
(c) They had to call Mammy "Master".
(d) They felt the harsh crack of the whip upon their backs from Mammy.

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

13. What was the weigh-in time?
(a) Slaves had to have their baskets full of crop weighed at the end of each day to ensure they were doing their work.
(b) Slaves had to have their baskets full of cotton weighed at the end of each day.
(c) Slaves had to help their masters weigh the items they owned because each slave was allowed only a certain weight limit for personal objects.
(d) Slaves had to have themselves weighed at the end of each day in case they were getting too much to eat.

14. Why were the Africans finally selected by the colonists to be slaves?
(a) Their skin color stood out and made it easy to find them if they tried to escape.
(b) They were easy to capture.
(c) They were easy to convince.
(d) They did as they were told, made acts of rebellion, and were willing to work hard for their masters.

15. What was the reason for the months that slave traders chose to have slave coffles?
(a) It was the time that plantation work was the lightest and new slaves could adjust.
(b) It was the time that slave owners preferred to work.
(c) The weather made it easier to hold auctions.
(d) It was the time plantation work was the heaviest so slave owners needed new hardworking slaves.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did the attempt to use this second group of people also fail for the English colonists?

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

3. What did the slaves call the slave owner's house?

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

5. In 1860, less than ______ slave owners owned more than ______ slaves.

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