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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the second group of people that the colonists tried to use for manual labor?
(a) Rich whites.
(b) Indians.
(c) Africans.
(d) Poor whites, prisoners, and debtors.

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

3. In 1860, less than ______ slave owners owned more than ______ slaves.
(a) 4000; 150.
(b) 4000; 150.
(c) 3000; 150.
(d) 3000; 100.

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

5. What is another way early slave trades were carried out?
(a) The slave traders lied to the Africans, telling them they would be indentured servants instead of slaves.
(b) Slave traders asked the Africans to visit their ship then captured them.
(c) Slave traders started fights with Africans, making bets that if the Africans lost, they would have to become slaves.
(d) The slave traders made pacts with African tribal chiefs to trade slaves for goods.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the advantage to a slave for being sold in an auction that took place in his area?

2. Who describes being thrown in a buck and whipped?

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

4. What was the main lesson that Byrl Anderson learned from his Master?

5. What is the name of the early nineteenth century slave who heard stories of Africa from his grandfather and later wrote an autobiography?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was the overall reaction from the slave community once they were freed?

2. In the Epilogue, what are Thomas Hall's views about the whites towards blacks?

3. What was the importance of music in the lives of the slaves?

4. Which story in Chapter 1 is an example of slaves being forced to do something that was not directly related to their normal work and what was the story?

5. According to Chapter 3, what were the conditions of the slave homes that belonged to George Washington?

6. After emancipation, what did many of the ex-slaves to do attempt to survive? Did this work?

7. According to the Prologue, how was slavery in the United States different than slavery in other countries?

8. Why did slave owners attempt to be nice towards children on the auction block before purchasing them? And did this attempt usually work?

9. According to Rhody Holsell in the Epilogue, what were Lincoln's plans for the blacks if he had lived and does Holsell agree with the idea?

10. Discuss the reasons why Indians and whites did not work out for the colonists for manual labor purposes.

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