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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Roberta Manson.
(b) Ella Wilson.
(c) Henry Johnson.
(d) Ida Hutchinson.

2. In Chapter 2, who was free man who was captured and put into slavery?
(a) Lorenzo Ivy.
(b) Charles Ball.
(c) Solomon Northup.
(d) Ben Simpson.

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

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

5. What is the name of the early nineteenth century slave who heard stories of Africa from his grandfather and later wrote an autobiography?
(a) Charles Bale.
(b) Charlie Bale.
(c) Charles Ball.
(d) Charlie Ball.

6. Why did the attempt to use this second group of people also fail for the English colonists?
(a) They were susceptible to several diseases in the New World and many died quickly.
(b) They were lazy and did not do their required work well.
(c) They felt that because they too were white, that they deserved equal treatment and refused to work.
(d) The seven year turnover meant a continued supply of new people and they could easily run away and blend in with other whites people.

7. What was Franklin and Armfield?
(a) The largest slave-trading firm.
(b) The largest slave-breeding plantation.
(c) The largest slave-buying firm.
(d) The largest slave-freeing group.

8. ____________ was the practice of slave owners which resulted in more children for next generation labor and an easy way to make a profit through sales.
(a) Slave-collecting.
(b) Slave-selling.
(c) Slave-breeding.
(d) Slave-auctioning.

9. What exactly happened at the occasion of a young slave woman named Eliza?
(a) Eliza was bought by the master who owned her family.
(b) Eliza was bought by a kind master.
(c) Eliza was bought by some free blacks and then freed herself.
(d) Eliza was bought and freed by a man from New York.

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

11. How was slavery in the United States different than slavery in other countries?
(a) Slavery in the United States allowed some slaves to be set free.
(b) Slavery in the United States was far more lenient in the way slaves were treated.
(c) Slavery in the United States was far more cruel and culture-destroying than the others.
(d) Slavery in the United States did not allow slaves to have families.

12. This former President furnished his slave homes in the more typical fashion:
(a) James Madison.
(b) George Washington.
(c) Thomas Jefferson.
(d) John Adams.

13. If a slave did not have the correct weigh-in amount, what was the consequence?
(a) All clothing taken away.
(b) Lashes.
(c) Being thrown in a buck.
(d) No food for a week.

14. What was one cause of death of the Africans aboard the slave ship?
(a) Murder.
(b) Suffocation.
(c) Starvation.
(d) Drowning.

15. Mammy referred to her slave days as what?
(a) The "scornful days."
(b) The "hell days."
(c) The "weary days."
(d) The "misery days."

Short Answer Questions

1. The job of a slaver trader was to sell the slave to the _____________.

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

3. What was a third reason Africans appealed to the colonists as slaves?

4. What percentage of the South owned no slaves?

5. Which was the highest slave-breeding state?

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