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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Approximately how many Africans were taken from their continent during the years of slave trade?
(a) Ten billion.
(b) Fifty billion.
(c) Ten million.
(d) Fifty million.

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

3. In Chapter 2, who was free man who was captured and put into slavery?
(a) Lorenzo Ivy.
(b) Ben Simpson.
(c) Charles Ball.
(d) Solomon Northup.

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

5. Why did the attempt to use this first group of people for manual labor fail for the English Colonists?
(a) The language barrier proved difficult for communication.
(b) They were uncompromising and unwilling to work.
(c) They were not used to plantation life and were susceptible to diseases.
(d) They rebelled often against the landlords and ran away.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Whose account is an example of a joyous occasion seen at the auction block?

3. Slaves knew they were enslaved because of what two reasons?

4. What was the second group of people that the colonists tried to use for manual labor?

5. What percentage of the South owned no slaves?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was the KKK and what did they do?

2. What were some of the reasons that slave owners would sell their slaves?

3. Discuss what Patsy Michener meant when she said, "Two snakes full of poison. One lying with his head pointed north, the other with his head pointing south."?

4. Why did slave owners attempt to be nice towards children on the auction block before purchasing them? And did this attempt usually work?

5. What kept the slaves working in the fields day in and day out?

6. In Chapter 5, what does the story of Paul symbolize?

7. What was the overall reaction from the slave community once they were freed?

8. Why were many of the former slaves that the Federal Writer's Project interviewed bitter?

9. Why do you think Tom Robinson from Chapter 6 could not believe he was emancipated?

10. Discuss the reasons why Indians and whites did not work out for the colonists for manual labor purposes.

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