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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 strangled in front of their mothers' eyes as a lesson in obedience.
(c) They were separated from their mothers and thrown overboard into the water.
(d) They were taken aboard another ship meant only for slave children.

2. 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 convince.
(c) They did as they were told, made acts of rebellion, and were willing to work hard for their masters.
(d) They were easy to capture.

3. What was the title for the trusted slave that would often help administer whippings to other slaves?
(a) The overseer.
(b) The driver.
(c) The slave owner.
(d) The slave trader.

4. Which of the following is NOT a reason a slave owner might sell a slave?
(a) He wanted to try buying new slaves.
(b) Unmanageable slaves.
(c) To free himself of a personal or business debt.
(d) Slave-breeding.

5. In 1860, less than ______ slave owners owned more than ______ slaves.
(a) 4000; 150.
(b) 3000; 100.
(c) 3000; 150.
(d) 4000; 150.

6. Many of the white men and black slave children had what sort of unique bond, though not always acknowledged?
(a) Father and son/daughter.
(b) Master and slave.
(c) Father and slave.
(d) Master and servant.

7. What percentage of the South owned no slaves?
(a) 75%.
(b) 60%.
(c) 50%.
(d) 25%.

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

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

10. What was one cause of death of the Africans aboard the slave ship?
(a) Drowning.
(b) Suffocation.
(c) Starvation.
(d) Murder.

11. 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 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 their baskets full of crop weighed at the end of each day to ensure they were doing their work.

12. 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 slave trader.
(b) The overseer.
(c) The driver.
(d) The slave owner.

13. Which of the following was most likely the outfit a slave wore to work out in the field?
(a) A shirt AND pants.
(b) A shirt, hat, and shoes OR pants.
(c) A shirt, pants, AND hat.
(d) A shirt OR pants.

14. 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) Byrl Anderson.
(b) Charley Williams.
(c) Alice Johnson.
(d) Annonymous.

15. Who said this in their account of slavery: "They never got nary a lick of labor and nary a red penny for any of them babies."?
(a) Ella Wilson.
(b) Ida Hutchinson.
(c) Henry Johnson.
(d) Roberta Manson.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which country introduced Africans to Europe in the early sixteenth century?

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. How many lashes would a slave receive for something like standing idle in the field?

4. What was Franklin and Armfield?

5. Which was the highest slave-breeding state?

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