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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) Negro.
(b) Black.
(c) Nigger.
(d) Creature.

2. What were house servants led to believe?
(a) That being a house servant was the greatest honor.
(b) That they must obey all that was told to them.
(c) That they must side with the other slaves and help them escape.
(d) That they must secretly spy on their masters in order to be able to create good escape plans.

3. What states did the Emancipation Proclamation affect when it was declared?
(a) Only those under Union control.
(b) It did not affect states, only people.
(c) Only the southern states.
(d) All the states.

4. Which of the following is NOT something the slaves did when they heard of their freedom?
(a) Shout wildly.
(b) Thank their masters for keeping them so long.
(c) Sing and dance.
(d) Toss away their tools and jump about.

5. To whom did the "Uncle Toms" refer to?
(a) The slave owners.
(b) The field workers.
(c) The slave traders.
(d) The house servants.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was President Lincoln's original reason for starting the Civil War?

2. Who was the group which argued for "forty acres and a mule" for every ex-slave?

3. What was the name of the white terrorist group formed at the end of the Civil War?

4. The padlock that the slave Paul wore is a symbolization of what?

5. Where did the South surrender to the North?

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