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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What percentage of the South owned no slaves?
(a) 60%.
(b) 50%.
(c) 75%.
(d) 25%.

2. Approximately how many Africans were taken from their continent during the years of slave trade?
(a) Ten billion.
(b) Fifty billion.
(c) Ten million.
(d) Fifty million.

3. 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."?
(a) Ida Hutchinson.
(b) Roberta Manson.
(c) Henry Johnson.
(d) Ella Wilson.

4. In which year was "To Be a Slave" published?
(a) 1972.
(b) 1968.
(c) 1937.
(d) 1988.

5. Who were the house servants?
(a) They were the slaves that were treated better than the others and usually model slaves.
(b) They were the ones who were paid small amounts of money by the masters and were not really slaves.
(c) They were the slaves that never left the house.
(d) They were the maids of the house.

Short Answer Questions

1. What year did the Civil War begin?

2. When did the Federal Writer's Project operate according to the Epilogue?

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."?

4. Which of the following was NOT a reason slaves would sneak off into the woods during nights?

5. Between the time that a slave was bought and sold by a trader, what happened to him?

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