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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 6-10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What separated William Ford from other slave owners in Bayou Bœuf?
(a) He taught each one of them a different trade.
(b) He did not keep slaves whom he bought for more than three months.
(c) Once he bought slaves, he never sold them.
(d) He taught his slaves about God and provided them with Bibles.

2. How did Merrill Brown and Abram Hamilton treat Solomon while traveling to New York?
(a) They did not speak to him very much.
(b) With kindness and respect.
(c) They treated him in a business-like manner.
(d) They treated him like a hired hand.

3. In one word, how could William Ford's overseer, Chapin be described?
(a) Lenient.
(b) Unfair.
(c) Fair.
(d) Strict.

4. What did Solomon learn while spending time in the yard outside Williams' Slave Pen?
(a) He learned the background of the other slaves.
(b) He learned that other slaves had escaped from that yard.
(c) He learned that some of the slaves were planning to escape.
(d) He learned that there were other slave pens nearby.

5. Aside from Bibles, what did William Ford provide his slaves that other slave owners seemed to overlook or not consider to provide them with at all?
(a) Winter clothing.
(b) Fork.
(c) Skillet.
(d) Bath soap.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did the raft that Solomon built for William Ford's lumber transporting business benefit Ford?

2. Shortly after buying them, how did William Ford show Solomon and the other slaves that he was compassionate toward them?

3. How were Solomon and Arthur (the slave who boards the Orleans in Norfolk) fundamentally alike?

4. How did Freeman's customers view the idea of buying slaves from the same family?

5. If Solomon should have been paying attention to anything that was happening while he traveled with Brown and Hamilton that may have been a clear indicator that things may not really be the way that they appeared to be, what should it have been?

(see the answer key)

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