10. Document Project 10: Lives in Slavery

Quiz for Document 10.9 Mary Reynolds, Recalling Work, Punishment, and Faith, c. 1850s

Quiz for Document 10.9: Mary Reynolds, Recalling Work, Punishment, and Faith, c. 1850s

Choose the best answer for each question.

1. Why did Mary Reynolds use the term “nigger”?

It was a derogatory term for slaves.

She was referring to people she did not like.

It was the commonly accepted term for black people.

She wanted to anger her audience.

2. What was the role of religion in Reynolds’s experience as a slave?

It was a promise of something better to come.

It never featured in her life as a slave.

It defined all of her decisions and governed her life.

It gave her a figure to blame for her current situation.

3. Who featured most in her recollections of her days as a slave?

Her father

The overseer, Solomon

The master, Kilpatrick

Her mother

4. What did she mean when she said her owner “wasn’t no piddlin’ man”?

He was a very tall man.

He was overweight.

He was very strict.

He was wealthy.

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