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

2. Which of the following were not one of the people who would administer a whipping to a slave?
(a) The overseer.
(b) The slave owner.
(c) The slave owner's wife.
(d) The slave owner's child.

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

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

5. What is a third way early slave trades were carried out?
(a) African chiefs were tricked into "loaning out" tribesmen as indentured servants.
(b) Slave traders would drug Africans and steal them.
(c) Slave traders started fights with Africans, making bets that if the Africans lost, they would have to become slaves.
(d) African chiefs made deals with one another to trade their own tribesmen and prisoners to the white traders for goods.

Short Answer Questions

1. Some slaves preferred what over being captured after running away?

2. What was the title for a poor white who was hired to watch over the slaves as they worked and ensure they weren't lazy or try to run away?

3. What are the two ways that a man can be enslaved?

4. Which country introduced Africans to Europe in the early sixteenth century?

5. What was one principal item for which slaves were traded for?

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