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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5, Resistance to Slavery - 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the weigh-in time?
(a) Slaves had to have their baskets full of cotton weighed at the end of each day.
(b) Slaves had to have their baskets full of crop weighed at the end of each day to ensure they were doing their work.
(c) Slaves had to have themselves weighed at the end of each day in case they were getting too much to eat.
(d) Slaves had to help their masters weigh the items they owned because each slave was allowed only a certain weight limit for personal objects.

2. What was the purpose of the slaves to appear ignorant, sloppy, and stupid?
(a) To gain less work and more food.
(b) To gain less work and less whippings.
(c) To gain more food and less whippings.
(d) To gain less food and less work.

3. What was Henry Johnson's account about slavery?
(a) His grandmother whipped him to show him what being a slave felt like.
(b) He was thrown in a buck and whipped.
(c) He and other slaves were forced by their master to steal cattle from other slave owners.
(d) He was a driver who was lenient with the whip.

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

5. What item was used to discipline slaves?
(a) A pitchfork.
(b) A gun.
(c) A whip.
(d) A leather thong.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the title for the trusted slave that would often help administer whippings to other slaves?

2. Why were Native African slaves more fortunate than slaves born into slavery?

3. What happened to the children who were captured with their mothers and brought aboard the slave ship?

4. In 1860, less than ______ slave owners owned more than ______ slaves.

5. When did the slaves generally sneak off?

(see the answer key)

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