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

2. 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) Ida Hutchinson.
(b) Ella Wilson.
(c) Henry Johnson.
(d) Roberta Manson.

3. What was Franklin and Armfield?
(a) The largest slave-breeding plantation.
(b) The largest slave-buying firm.
(c) The largest slave-freeing group.
(d) The largest slave-trading firm.

4. What is the first group of people that the colonists tried out as slaves?
(a) Chinese.
(b) Whites.
(c) Africans.
(d) Indians.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did some drivers, like Platt, become experienced at?

2. Complete the author's sentence: "They were not slaves. They were people. Their condition was _______________."

3. 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?

4. Which of the following were not one of the people who would administer a whipping to a slave?

5. In 1860, less than ______ slave owners owned more than ______ slaves.

Short Essay Questions

1. How effective was the Emancipation Proclamation once it was issued in 1863?

2. What was Julius Lester's purpose for writing "To Be a Slave" and did he accomplish it?

3. What usually happened with slave families during the slave trades?

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

5. How were the slaves usually clothed for working out in the fields?

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

7. According to Rhody Holsell in the Epilogue, what were Lincoln's plans for the blacks if he had lived and does Holsell agree with the idea?

8. What was the story of Blackshear and what was the significance?

9. What was the reason that the Federal Writer's Project interviewed so many blacks?

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

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