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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 1, To Be a Slave.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was a second principal item for which slaves were traded for?
(a) Domesticated dogs.
(b) Yards of cotton.
(c) Horses.
(d) Several pounds of corn.

2. What was one principal item for which slaves were traded for?
(a) Weapons.
(b) Yams.
(c) Furniture.
(d) Liquor.

3. What was a second reason Africans appealed to the colonists as slaves?
(a) They appreciated the amount of money they would be paid.
(b) They did as they were told, made acts of rebellion, and were willing to work hard for their masters.
(c) They were eager to leave Africa for the New World.
(d) They could be bought "for life."

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

5. What is one way early slave trades were carried out?
(a) The slave traders would lie in wait for the Africans then capture them.
(b) Slave traders tranquilized Africans, then captured them.
(c) Slave traders would drug Africans and steal them.
(d) Slave traders asked the Africans to visit their ship then captured them.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Frank Cooper realize his Mammy used to be a slave?

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

3. Mammy referred to her slave days as what?

4. Who said this in their account of slavery: "They never got nary a lick of labor and nary a red penny for any of them babies."?

5. What was the only thing the slaves were given to eat on board the slave ship?

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