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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2, The Auction Block.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why did the emotional scenes during slave trades occur?
(a) Slaves did not want to part from their original masters.
(b) Slave families rejoiced at being bought together.
(c) Slave families were being split apart.
(d) Slaves didn't agree with the price they were being sold for.

2. Complete the author's sentence: "They were not slaves. They were people. Their condition was _______________."
(a) Slavery.
(b) Eternal servitutde.
(c) Dire.
(d) Indentured servitude.

3. Most of the time when a slave was going to be __________, he/she _____________ know about it in advance.
(a) bred; did not.
(b) sold; did.
(c) bred; did.
(d) sold; did not.

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

5. Slave traders chained slaves together in a line in what was called a _________________.
(a) Slave auction.
(b) Slave line-up.
(c) Slave chain.
(d) Slave coffle.

Short Answer Questions

1. Approximately how many Africans were taken from their continent during the years of slave trade?

2. What is the name of the early nineteenth century slave who heard stories of Africa from his grandfather and later wrote an autobiography?

3. What was another cause of death of the Africans aboard the slave ship?

4. What was the area on the slave trading boat called where the Africans were held and chained together?

5. The job of a slaver trader was to sell the slave to the _____________.

(see the answer key)

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