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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Epilogue.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What year was the Emancipation Proclamation declared?
(a) 1863.
(b) 1861.
(c) 1865.
(d) 1866.

2. How many years did the Civil War last?
(a) 4.
(b) 5.
(c) 3.
(d) 7.

3. Who said, "Judge Miller! Don't you bid for me, 'cause if you do, I would not live on your plantation. I will take a knife and cut my own throat from ear to ear before I would be owned by you."?
(a) Delicia Patterson.
(b) Eliza.
(c) Alice Johnson.
(d) Annonymous.

4. What was the name of the white terrorist group formed at the end of the Civil War?
(a) Ku Ku Klan.
(b) Ku Klan Klux.
(c) Klux Ku Klan.
(d) Ku Klux Klan.

5. What was President Lincoln's original reason for starting the Civil War?
(a) To preserve the Union.
(b) To free the slaves.
(c) To teach the southern states not to rebel.
(d) To split the Union.

Short Answer Questions

1. From where did the first American-built slave ship sail from?

2. Which was the highest slave-breeding state?

3. When was the only time slaves got a few days to a week off?

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

5. What was the purpose of Julius Lester compiling slave narrations and writing "To Be a Slave?"

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