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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Frazier's interviewee claim made slavery okay?
(a) Both the law and Bible sanctioned it.
(b) The President said it was.
(c) It was a way of life, the only way most people knew.
(d) The politicians said it was.

2. What happens to the sick slave who Moses forces to work in the fields despite an illness?
(a) Celeste gives birth to a stillborn baby.
(b) Gloria gives birth to a sickly baby.
(c) Delphie has a heart attack.
(d) Elias suffers a seizure.

3. What does Robbins want to see happen to help support the sheriff's actions?
(a) A militia formed.
(b) A slave patrol organized.
(c) A military regime brought in.
(d) An increase in the number of deputies.

4. Who is exempt from the Act of 1806 because of the generosity of local whites?
(a) Mildred.
(b) Henry.
(c) Augustus.
(d) Moses.

5. Who suggests that Moses be hobbled for running away?
(a) Oden.
(b) Barnum.
(c) Counsel.
(d) Travis.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose birth does Moses claim to have been present at, even though the reader knows Moses was not in Manchester County until many years later?

2. Who is Ray Topps?

3. What does Skiffington think should be done with Minerva, his slave, if the family were to move?

4. What is unusual about the fact that Henry Townsend owns slaves?

5. Who does Caldonia believe is a better master to slaves--a white man or a black man?

(see the answer key)

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