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

2. What event set off a large amount of slave selling?
(a) The death of many slave owners due to the plague.
(b) The election of Abraham Lincoln as President.
(c) The death of many slaves due to the unconditionally hot weather in the summer.
(d) The nomination of Abraham Lincoln as President.

3. 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 crop weighed at the end of each day to ensure they were doing their work.
(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 cotton weighed at the end of each day.

4. What was a third reason Africans appealed to the colonists as slaves?
(a) They were diligent workers.
(b) They were hard and diligent workers, they did not attempt many escapes, and they did not have to be paid.
(c) They were eager and willing workers.
(d) There was a never-ending supply.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was a second principal item for which slaves were traded for?

2. What was the slave's "home" called?

3. This former President furnished his slave homes in the more typical fashion:

4. Whose account supports the author's claim that slave traders often used tricks to make the slaves appear well-groomed and healthy for the day of the auction?

5. This second group of people were not slaves but rather called __________________.

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe how the slaves were held in the slave galley of the ships.

2. Which story in Chapter 1 is an example of slaves being forced to do something that was not directly related to their normal work and what was the story?

3. What was the overall reaction from the slave owner community once slaves were freed?

4. What were some ways that the slaves celebrated and had fun?

5. Discuss the role of establishing house-servants and what they did.

6. Describe what it means to be thrown "in a buck."

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

8. According to the Prologue, how was slavery in the United States different than slavery in other countries?

9. According to Chapter 3, what were the conditions of the slave homes that belonged to George Washington?

10. After emancipation, what did many of the ex-slaves to do attempt to survive? Did this work?

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