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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 exactly happened at the occasion of a young slave woman named Eliza?
(a) Eliza was bought by the master who owned her family.
(b) Eliza was bought by a kind master.
(c) Eliza was bought and freed by a man from New York.
(d) Eliza was bought by some free blacks and then freed herself.

2. In southern society, a man's status was based upon:
(a) The amount of money he recieved from selling slaves.
(b) The number of slaves he had.
(c) The amount of money he had.
(d) The number of slave women he had.

3. Why did the emotional scenes during slave trades occur?
(a) Slave families were being split apart.
(b) Slaves did not want to part from their original masters.
(c) Slaves didn't agree with the price they were being sold for.
(d) Slave families rejoiced at being bought together.

4. Many of the white men and black slave children had what sort of unique bond, though not always acknowledged?
(a) Master and servant.
(b) Master and slave.
(c) Father and son/daughter.
(d) Father and slave.

5. From where did the first American-built slave ship sail from?
(a) Jamestown.
(b) Plymouth Rock.
(c) Massachusetts.
(d) Maryland.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happened to the children who were captured with their mothers and brought aboard the slave ship?

2. What was the main lesson that Byrl Anderson learned from his Master?

3. Who describes being thrown in a buck and whipped?

4. What was it about the African civilizations that made it easier for colonists to use the Africans more easily?

5. The slave trading was much like today's ____________________.

Short Essay Questions

1. What story did Frank Cooper tell and what was its importance?

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

3. 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?

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

5. From Chapter 4, discuss how slave owners brainwashed slaves.

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

7. What was the story of Powhatan Mitchell and what did it signify?

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

9. According to the author in Chapter 1, how were slaves typically depicted? Was this the reality? If not, what was?

10. Describe the reaction of the anonymous white man who mentions being awakened by the overseer's horn in Chapter 3.

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