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Quiz for Document 15–4: Susie King Taylor, Reminiscences of My Life in Camp, 1902

Choose the best answer to each question.

1. How did the black soldiers from the regiment in which Taylor worked respond to receiving less pay than white soldiers?

They attacked their commanding officers.

They protested and demanded full pay.

They accepted the injustice for the sake of victory.

They returned to the South and joined the Confederacy.

2. As a child and a slave, how was Taylor able to obtain an education?

She worked as an apprentice for a local seamstress.

She was completely self-taught.

A local free black woman secretly educated slave children.

The local church educated all the slave children.

3. How did the white masters try to dissuade their slaves from fleeing to the Union army?

They threatened them with violence.

They told them the Union army would treat them as pack animals.

They sent them to plantations further away from the advancing army.

They hired more overseers to make sure no slaves ran away.

4. What did Colonel Trowbridge encourage black soldiers to do after the war ended?

Move to the North where they would find more work and better living conditions

Remain in the military since it would be a good career for them

Take over the plantations where they had been enslaved

Let go of their hatred toward their masters and work hard and honestly as American citizens