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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. Who said, "Judge Miller! Don't you bid for me, 'cause if you do, I would not live on your plantation. I will take a knife and cut my own throat from ear to ear before I would be owned by you."?
(a) Eliza.
(b) Alice Johnson.
(c) Annonymous.
(d) Delicia Patterson.

2. What percentage of the South owned no slaves?
(a) 75%.
(b) 25%.
(c) 50%.
(d) 60%.

3. The slave homes of this former President was a notable exception to the norm in terms of the condition of the homes:
(a) James Madison.
(b) Thomas Jefferson.
(c) John Adams.
(d) George Washington.

4. Which country introduced Africans to Europe in the early sixteenth century?
(a) England.
(b) Netherlands.
(c) Portugal.
(d) Spain.

5. What is a third way early slave trades were carried out?
(a) Slave traders would drug Africans and steal them.
(b) African chiefs made deals with one another to trade their own tribesmen and prisoners to the white traders for goods.
(c) African chiefs were tricked into "loaning out" tribesmen as indentured servants.
(d) Slave traders started fights with Africans, making bets that if the Africans lost, they would have to become slaves.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who said the following: "I have never seen or heard from her from that day to this. I loved her as I love my life."

2. Where did some of the most emotional scenes of slave trading take place?

3. Approximately how many Africans were taken from their continent during the years of slave trade?

4. What was the title for a poor white who was hired to watch over the slaves as they worked and ensure they weren't lazy or try to run away?

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. Why did the colonists turn to blacks as a means of manual labor?

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

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

4. Briefly discuss the treatment of Ben Simpson mother by their master in Chapter 2.

5. 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?

6. Briefly describe a typical plantation.

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

8. Discuss the ideas of freedom and death to the slaves.

9. What does Chapter 5 say about slave insurrections?

10. What was one of the big problems that arose after slaves were emancipated?

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