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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1, Chapter 2 The Choked Voices of a Race at Last Unloosed.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Plantation ________, who wielded the most power within the community, tended to be male.
(a) Owners.
(b) Elders.
(c) Slaves.
(d) Ombudsmen.

3. Hahn discovered there were more examples of resistance and political struggle across the South in the wake of the _____________.
(a) Antebellum.
(b) Civil War.
(c) Election.
(d) Emancipation.

4. Hahn argues that smaller __________ do not allow us to see how the developments of one era shaped those of the next.
(a) Events.
(b) Books.
(c) Time periods.
(d) Movements.

5. The wartime military provided a basic political _____________ to fugitive slaves.
(a) Manual.
(b) Organization.
(c) Structure.
(d) Education.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is NOT one of the things which Hahn sees as being embraced after the struggles were defeated and the goals rejected?

2. This book is about how African Americans became involved in a(n) ____________ struggle.

3. Calls for the __________ inclusion of women and northern free blacks were ignored or rejected.

4. This is a book about the inspiring and the dispiriting history of American ____________.

5. In what area of the country does Hahn focus the contents of this book he has compiled?

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