Prentice Alvin | Short Question Answer Key

Short Answer Key

Chapter 1, The Overseer

1. What document did Appalachee sign?

The Fugitive Slave Treaty.

2. How old was Cavil's wife when she took to having aches and pains?

Twenty-five.

3. What did Dolores ask for Cavil to do?

Sleep in another room.

4. What was to happen in the ballroom downstairs?

Their daughters were to meet their beaux there.

5. What did Dolores' hands look like?

Dead crabs.

6. What did the lowest kind of creature do?

Live openly with a black woman.

7. How much had Cavil bought his new girl for?

Six hundred dollars.

8. What had Cavil never seen anything so graceful as?

Her blue black thighs sliding against each other.

9. What did Cavil start to think?

The Lord had placed these desires in him.

10. What was the difference between Cavil and Abraham?

Abraham heard the voice of God.

11. What displayed the...
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