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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Who tells the story of the slave named Paul?
(a) Solomon Northup.
(b) Charles Ball.
(c) Beverly Jones.
(d) Annonymous.
2. What term was used for noted places of refuge for runaways?
(a) The Runaway House.
(b) The Big House.
(c) The Dismal Swamps.
(d) The Pine Woods.
3. What year did the Civil War begin?
(a) 1866.
(b) 1826.
(c) 1861.
(d) 1816.
4. Slavery was abolished but what was the new term for the new treatment of blacks?
(a) Emancipation.
(b) Segregation.
(c) Renewed slavery.
(d) Separation.
5. What did some of the slave owners do when freedom was declared?
(a) They did not tell their slaves they were free.
(b) They gave their slaves homes to live in.
(c) They paid their slaves before letting them go.
(d) They killed their slaves so they could not have freedom.
6. Why were many of the slaves forced to remain on the plantations during the Civil War?
(a) They did not agree with the Civil War and wanted to remain on the plantation with their masters.
(b) They were not yet freed.
(c) They were afraid of running away and joining the Union army.
(d) They were the agricultural backbone of the south, especially if the men were off in the Confederate troop.
7. Who said, "I wanted to go back but I had no way."
(a) Frank Fikes.
(b) Jake Goodridge.
(c) Alice Wilkins.
(d) Mittie Freeman.
8. What was the main purpose of the white terrorist group that had formed at the end of the Civil War?
(a) To keep blacks from possessing their freedom.
(b) To kill as many freed slaves as possible.
(c) To help blacks possess their freedom.
(d) To capture and re-enslave as many blacks as possible.
9. Who said, "Ain't got to slave no more. We're free! We're free!"?
(a) Fannie Berry.
(b) Susie Melton.
(c) Anna Woods.
(d) Betty Jones.
10. Why were Native African slaves more fortunate than slaves born into slavery?
(a) They could speak a different language.
(b) They had somewhere to go if they managed to escape.
(c) They could tell stories to entertain their masters.
(d) They had a former life and knew something other than slavery.
11. What did the overseers term the slaves' acts of ignorance?
(a) Rascality.
(b) Sickening.
(c) A disease.
(d) Stupid.
12. What year did the Union army leave the South?
(a) 1876.
(b) 1867.
(c) 1873.
(d) 1866.
13. When slaves became freed, what was one constitutional power they were given?
(a) Voting.
(b) Keeping a family together.
(c) Education.
(d) Marriage.
14. Cornelia Carny told the story of whom?
(a) Her brother who hit the little Missy.
(b) Her cousin, Paul who hung himself.
(c) Her father, John Jones Littleton who hid in the woods.
(d) Her uncle Jake who quit working.
15. What are the two ways that a man can be enslaved?
(a) Force and brainwashing.
(b) Brainwashing and trickery.
(c) Brainwashing and money.
(d) Force and money.
Short Answer Questions
1. What were house servants led to believe?
2. When was the only time slaves got a few days to a week off?
3. Who were the "bluecoats?"
4. Who was the slave who freed him/herself who said he/she had worked enough and "you can't make me work no more?"
5. Some slaves preferred what over being captured after running away?
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