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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What stinging word did the slaves take and make their own to lessen its effects?
(a) Creature.
(b) Negro.
(c) Nigger.
(d) Black.

2. What year did the Civil War begin?
(a) 1861.
(b) 1866.
(c) 1826.
(d) 1816.

3. Who was the group which argued for "forty acres and a mule" for every ex-slave?
(a) Radical Republicans.
(b) The Whigs.
(c) The Unions.
(d) Radical Democrats.

4. Who was the slave who did not agree with slavery but felt that doing the job right was the proper way of doing things?
(a) West Turner.
(b) Charles Ball.
(c) Josiah Henson.
(d) William Hayden.

5. Slavery was abolished but what was the new term for the new treatment of blacks?
(a) Renewed slavery.
(b) Separation.
(c) Emancipation.
(d) Segregation.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who said, "Slavery was a bad thing and freedom of the kind we got with nothing to live on was bad."?

2. Chapter 5 portrays which of the following themes?

3. How was a slave identified?

4. When did the slaves generally sneak off?

5. What was Lew Cheney known for?

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