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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 was the area on the slave trading boat called where the Africans were held and chained together?
(a) Slave dinghy.
(b) Slave holding.
(c) Slave galley.
(d) Slave dungeon.

2. Slave traders chained slaves together in a line in what was called a _________________.
(a) Slave auction.
(b) Slave coffle.
(c) Slave chain.
(d) Slave line-up.

3. Complete the author's sentence: "They were not slaves. They were people. Their condition was _______________."
(a) Indentured servitude.
(b) Slavery.
(c) Eternal servitutde.
(d) Dire.

4. What was the typical work hours for a slave who worked in the field?
(a) Sunrise to midnight.
(b) Sunrise to sunset.
(c) Sunrise to nighttime.
(d) Mid-morning to midnight.

5. How was slavery in the United States different than slavery in other countries?
(a) Slavery in the United States was far more cruel and culture-destroying than the others.
(b) Slavery in the United States was far more lenient in the way slaves were treated.
(c) Slavery in the United States allowed some slaves to be set free.
(d) Slavery in the United States did not allow slaves to have families.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is true about slaves and their living on plantations?

3. Who said the following: "We never heard our names scarcely at all. First young man I went with wanted to know my initials! What did I know 'bout initials?"

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

5. How many lashes would a slave receive for something like a broken branch in the field or a dry leaf in the cotton?

Short Essay Questions

1. What were three ways that the Prologue mentions in which slave trading was carried out?

2. Discuss the story of Lev Cheney.

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

4. What does Chapter 5 say about slave insurrections?

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

6. What is the brief story of the slave named Jake from Chapter 5 and what is its significance?

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

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

9. In the Prologue, what does Ball say happened to the African women and children?

10. In the Epilogue, why does Thomas Hall state that he does not like Lincoln?

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