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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 animals did the master who taught his son to call him "Papa" use to teach his black son and white son about brotherhood?
(a) Goats.
(b) Chickens.
(c) Sheep.
(d) Pigs.

2. What was the weigh-in time?
(a) Slaves had to have their baskets full of cotton weighed at the end of each day.
(b) Slaves had to help their masters weigh the items they owned because each slave was allowed only a certain weight limit for personal objects.
(c) Slaves had to have themselves weighed at the end of each day in case they were getting too much to eat.
(d) Slaves had to have their baskets full of crop weighed at the end of each day to ensure they were doing their work.

3. Slaves knew they were enslaved because of what two reasons?
(a) Free labor and the large supply of blacks.
(b) Free labor and money resulting from it and selling slaves.
(c) Stealing from other slave owners and free labor.
(d) Money from selling slaves and stealing from other slave owners.

4. Once the slaves left the field, what did they do?
(a) Eat dinner.
(b) Attend to their individual chores.
(c) Cook dinner for the master.
(d) Get some rest.

5. What is true about slaves and their living on plantations?
(a) Most slaves were exchanged between plantation owners of the same area so that they were somewhere different every few months.
(b) Most slaves would live on at least two, and many times more, plantations throughout their life.
(c) Most slaves lived one one plantation througout their life.
(d) Most slaves were able to choose which plantations they wanted to live on for the remainder of their lives.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. Which country introduced Africans to Europe in the early sixteenth century?

5. Which was the highest slave-breeding state?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Who is Mr. Wilson described by Ball in the Prologue and what is his story?

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

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

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

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

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

10. Even though Lincoln's original goal was not to free the slaves through the Civil War, why did so many slaves join the Union army?

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