Common Assessment 4

1. Which sentence in the first paragraph best supports this inference?

A) The fields were the easiest places to work.
B) It was fun to work on a plantation in Virginia and Maryland.
C) The larger the plantation the more work slave children had to do.
D) Slave owners didn't believe in selling family members.

2. Which sentence in paragraph 2 most likely explains how a house servant was treated differently than a slave?

A) A house servant slept in the Big House instead of a slave cabin.
B) Slaves worked longer hours than house servants.
C) House servants didn't stay on the plantation at all.
D) House servants always had family, but slaves didn't.

3. In the section "Life for slave child," which of the following statements about a slave child's job is most likely true?

A) Slave children were never regarded as equal to their masters
B) Being a slave child was a fun adventure
C) Slave children had a choice of the chores they did.
D) Slave children would be free when they became adults.

4. Why does the author speak directly to you the reader?

A) So you the reader can imagine what it's like to be a slave.
B) The author feels that slavery in unfair to everyone except children.
C) The author wrote the article for slaves.
D) The author thinks people should be a slave for a day.

5. In the section "Life for a slave child," which of these statements about spending time with the master's family is supported by the article?

A) House servants couldn't hear conversations of their master's family.
B) Abraham Lincoln was not the president.
C) House servants heard news about what was going on outside the plantation.
D) The house servant got to eat with the family.

6. In the section "Talk of an invasion," which of these statements about Northeners is supported?

A) Northerners were stealing slaves.
B) Notherners were afraid to fight.
C) Northerners were the enemies of those living on the Southern plantations.
D) Notherners were from a place called Yankee.

7. Which of these statements is supported by the section "Talk of an invasion?"

A) Slaves that escaped could join the Union army.
B) The Union army didn't want runaway slaves.
C) Escaped slaves were immediately killed by the Union army.
D) Runaway slaves were put in a jail called Fort Monroe.

8. In the section "Fleeing to safety," the reader can tell

A) Life in the Union camps was better than on the plantations.
B) Slaves were no longer viewed as property once they joined a Union camp.
C) Life for the slaves was difficult in the Union camps.
D) Slaves were afraid to go to Union camps.

9. Which of the following statements about "freedom" is supported by the section "Fleeing to safety?"

A) Freedom didn't exists for slaves.
B) Slaves experienced freedom at Fort Monroe.
C) Fort Monroe was hard to find.
D) Fleeing to Fort Monroe was the beginning for slaves seeking freedom.

10. The passage suggests which of the following?

A) Abraham Lincoln stopped slavery of children.
B) Slave children didn't need freedom, but an education.
C) Slave children didn't have the typical life of a child.
D) Children should still be slaves.

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