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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. Who was the largest slave trader in Memphis, Tennessee?
(a) Doc Daniel Dowdy
(b) Moses Grandy
(c) West Turner
(d) Nathan Bedford Forrest

2. What was the main lesson that Byrl Anderson learned from his Master?
(a) To never call him nor any other white man Master because all men, both black and white, are equal.
(b) To always treat women respectfully.
(c) Work hard to earn a well-rewarding job.
(d) To always love your brother honestly.

3. 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's wife.
(d) The slave owner.

4. The cotton picking season began when?
(a) Latter part of August.
(b) Beginning of September.
(c) Latter part of July.
(d) Latter part of June.

5. A buck position consisted of all of the following except....
(a) Squatting naked on the ground.
(b) A stick held between the arms and knees.
(c) Face being stuck in the ground.
(d) Hands being tied together at the shins.

Short Answer Questions

1. ____________ 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.

2. Mammy referred to her slave days as what?

3. What is true about slaves and their living on plantations?

4. Who said the following: "We never heard our names scarcely at all. First young man I went with wanted to know my initials! What did I know 'bout initials?"

5. What was the second group of people that the colonists tried to use for manual labor?

Short Essay Questions

1. Discuss the role of establishing house-servants and what they did.

2. Was the government to blame for the confusion of the freed slaves? Why or why not?

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

4. What were some of the reasons that slave owners would sell their slaves?

5. What was the KKK and what did they do?

6. What were three ways that the Prologue mentions in which slave trading was carried out?

7. Why did ex-slaves change their names after Emancipation? Was it a valid reason?

8. Discuss what Patsy Michener meant when she said, "Two snakes full of poison. One lying with his head pointed north, the other with his head pointing south."?

9. What usually happened with slave families during the slave trades?

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

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