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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was one thing slave owners feared?
(a) That their slaves might kill them.
(b) That their slaves would request freedom.
(c) That their slaves might rebel.
(d) That their slaves might run away.

2. What are the two ways that a man can be enslaved?
(a) Force and brainwashing.
(b) Brainwashing and trickery.
(c) Brainwashing and money.
(d) Force and money.

3. What term was used for noted places of refuge for runaways?
(a) The Dismal Swamps.
(b) The Big House.
(c) The Pine Woods.
(d) The Runaway House.

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

5. Why were many of the slaves forced to remain on the plantations during the Civil War?
(a) They were the agricultural backbone of the south, especially if the men were off in the Confederate troop.
(b) They were not yet freed.
(c) They were afraid of running away and joining the Union army.
(d) They did not agree with the Civil War and wanted to remain on the plantation with their masters.

Short Answer Questions

1. How was a slave identified?

2. What states did the Emancipation Proclamation affect when it was declared?

3. Solomon Northup said which of the following?

4. Which of the following is NOT something the slaves did when they heard of their freedom?

5. After working for a "share" for a while, what ended up happening to many of the ex-slaves?

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