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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4, Resistance to Slavery - 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is true about slaves and their living on plantations?
(a) Most slaves would live on at least two, and many times more, plantations throughout their life.
(b) Most slaves were able to choose which plantations they wanted to live on for the remainder of their lives.
(c) Most slaves were exchanged between plantation owners of the same area so that they were somewhere different every few months.
(d) Most slaves lived one one plantation througout their life.

2. This second group of people were not slaves but rather called __________________.
(a) Servants.
(b) Laboreres.
(c) Indentured servants.
(d) Farmers.

3. What did the slaves call the slave owner's house?
(a) Master's Row.
(b) The Big House.
(c) Master's House.
(d) The House.

4. Who describes being thrown in a buck and whipped?
(a) Ella Wilson.
(b) West Turner.
(c) Henry Johnson.
(d) Ida Hutchinson.

5. Why did the attempt to use this second group of people also fail for the English colonists?
(a) The seven year turnover meant a continued supply of new people and they could easily run away and blend in with other whites people.
(b) They felt that because they too were white, that they deserved equal treatment and refused to work.
(c) They were susceptible to several diseases in the New World and many died quickly.
(d) They were lazy and did not do their required work well.

Short Answer Questions

1. When the slaves went down for bed, what did they fear?

2. What item was used to discipline slaves?

3. What was the main lesson that Byrl Anderson learned from his Master?

4. What was one cause of death of the Africans aboard the slave ship?

5. Whose account is an example of a joyous occasion seen at the auction block?

(see the answer key)

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