To Be a Slave Test | Final Test - Easy

Julius Lester
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To Be a Slave Test | Final Test - Easy

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What year did the slave insurrection that is mentioned in Chapter 5 take place?
(a) 1823.
(b) 1831.
(c) 1821.
(d) 1813.

2. What turned into another kind of slavery?
(a) Abolition.
(b) Indentured servitude.
(c) Freedom.
(d) Insurrection.

3. What did the slaves use religion for?
(a) Simple worship.
(b) Resisting the dehumanizing effects of slavery.
(c) Learning new stories.
(d) Understanding how to treat their masters.

4. What was President Lincoln's original reason for starting the Civil War?
(a) To split the Union.
(b) To preserve the Union.
(c) To teach the southern states not to rebel.
(d) To free the slaves.

5. During the late 18th and 19th centuries, what was a second way slaves escaped from slavery?
(a) They drugged their masters.
(b) They ran away and lived the rest of their lives in the forest.
(c) They ran away and established their own settlements.
(d) They started rebellions and destroyed the plantations.

6. Although the slaves were now free, another problem arose. What was it?
(a) Their old masters sent people after them to catch and kill them.
(b) They did not know how to live on their own.
(c) They were still not allowed to vote.
(d) They had no money.

7. What did some of the slave owners do when freedom was declared?
(a) They killed their slaves so they could not have freedom.
(b) They did not tell their slaves they were free.
(c) They gave their slaves homes to live in.
(d) They paid their slaves before letting them go.

8. What did hundred of slaves do when they heard of the Civil War?
(a) Escaped to join the Union army.
(b) Stayed on the plantations.
(c) Freed themselves.
(d) Fought in the Confederate army.

9. Who was the slave who did not agree with slavery but felt that doing the job right was the proper way of doing things?
(a) West Turner.
(b) William Hayden.
(c) Josiah Henson.
(d) Charles Ball.

10. The padlock that the slave Paul wore is a symbolization of what?
(a) The extreme power the white man had over slaves.
(b) The animalistic treatment of the blacks by the slave owners.
(c) The animalistic treatment of the blacks by the slave owners.
(d) The greed of the slave traders.

11. What was the name of the white terrorist group formed at the end of the Civil War?
(a) Ku Ku Klan.
(b) Klux Ku Klan.
(c) Ku Klux Klan.
(d) Ku Klan Klux.

12. What was the purpose of the three bells worn by Paul above his head?
(a) His master used it as a means of finding him if he ran away.
(b) Anyone who heard the jingling would get scared and run away.
(c) When he hung himself, animals approaching his body would be scared away at the sound.
(d) To have something to use as an instrument for music when he was alone.

13. Who tells the story of the slave named Paul?
(a) Beverly Jones.
(b) Charles Ball.
(c) Solomon Northup.
(d) Annonymous.

14. What was one thing slave owners feared?
(a) That their slaves might rebel.
(b) That their slaves might run away.
(c) That their slaves would request freedom.
(d) That their slaves might kill them.

15. When slaves became freed, what was one constitutional power they were given?
(a) Education.
(b) Voting.
(c) Keeping a family together.
(d) Marriage.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did some slave owners move to Texas?

2. Who said, "Slavery was a bad thing and freedom of the kind we got with nothing to live on was bad."?

3. Who were the "bluecoats?"

4. What was the slave called Paul known for?

5. Who said, "Ain't got to slave no more. We're free! We're free!"?

(see the answer keys)

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