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Quiz for Document 16–5: Elias Hill, Testimony before Congressional Committee Investigating the Ku Klux Klan, 1871

Choose the best answer to each question.

1. How did the congressional committee react to Hill?

The committee dismissed Hill’s claims due to his race.

The committee suspected that Hill exaggerated about the Klan’s violence.

The committee regarded Hill as a reliable witness.

The committee was distracted by Hill’s physical appearance.

2. Why did the Klansmen target Hill?

He was accused of attacking a white woman.

He was an influential black leader.

He revealed the identity of Klan members.

He distributed weapons to his neighbors.

3. Why did the Klansmen choose not to kill Hill?

They wanted him to publicly renounce the Republican Party.

They wanted him to work on a nearby plantation.

They feared retaliation by the local courts and government.

They wanted to keep him on as an informer on the black community.