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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1, Chapter 3 Of Rumors and Revelations.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. About one in ________ slaves lived in the upper or border South, where the hiring of free people of color was not uncommon.
(a) Four.
(b) Five.
(c) Eight.
(d) Ten.

2. Those slaves who remained in the south began to take over their master's "____________" plantations.
(a) Burned down.
(b) Abandoned.
(c) Larger.
(d) Free.

3. When manpower needs raced ahead of recruitment, the army pressed _________ into service.
(a) Blacks.
(b) Slaveowners.
(c) Young boys.
(d) Whites.

4. This is a book about the inspiring and the dispiriting history of American ____________.
(a) Democracy.
(b) Equality.
(c) Turmoil.
(d) Voting.

5. The Friends of Universal ________ in Louisiana sought more radical reforms during this time.
(a) Freedom.
(b) Suffrage.
(c) Property.
(d) Rights.

Short Answer Questions

1. Due to the increase in slave ___________, a structure of kinship relationships and practices developed.

2. The rural South was a luminal political world after the __________ ended.

3. The majority of ______________ lived in the rural South during this particular time period of the book.

4. General Benjamin F. Butler declared slaves ______________ of war and put them to work.

5. This is a book about ___________ people who did extraordinary things under the most difficult of circumstances, writes Hahn.

(see the answer key)

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