The Known World Test | Final Test - Medium

Edward P. Jones
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 153 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

The Known World Test | Final Test - Medium

Edward P. Jones
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 153 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who do Darcy and Stennis finally manage to sell Augustus to for fifty-three dollars?
(a) Wilson Calhenny.
(b) William Robbins.
(c) Hillard Uster.
(d) Morris Calhenny.

2. What does Moses expect Caldonia to do for him now that his family is gone and he is Caldonia's lover?
(a) To make him a paid employee.
(b) To move him into the main house.
(c) To sell him.
(d) To free him.

3. What happens to nine-year-old Abundance Crawford during the journey south with the slave traders?
(a) She dies and they have a nice, impromtu funeral for her on the side of the road.
(b) She breaks a leg and is left abandoned on the side of the road.
(c) She becomes ill and is left with some racist slave patrollers on the side of the road.
(d) She dies and is left abandoned on the side of the road.

4. What profession does Saskia's husband force her into, first in Philadelphia, and later, North Carolina?
(a) Slavery.
(b) Nursing.
(c) Housekeeping.
(d) Prostitution.

5. What disease begins to sweep through the plantation, leaving most of the family and slaves dead?
(a) Black Plague.
(b) Smallpox.
(c) Dyptheria.
(d) The flu.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Counsel hope to eventually make his home?

2. What ailment does Morris Calhenny suffer that only his slave, Beau, can help him overcome?

3. What plantation does Saskia come to live on?

4. Who arrives in Manchester County, causing John Skiffington to think of Rip Van Winkle?

5. What happens to the sick slave who Moses forces to work in the fields despite an illness?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is Augustus killed?

2. Why does Counsel burn his own plantation house down in Chapter 7?

3. Who does Caldonia put in charge of the slaves after Moses runs away?

4. Why does Moses force his way into Caldonia's house? What does he demand to know?

5. What happens to Celeste that causes many of the slaves and Caldonia to begin questioning their faith in Moses?

6. Why does Mildred not immediately report her husband missing when he does not return home from a business trip?

7. What does Caldonia buy for her slaves that she earlier rejected but now sees as an asset.

8. What does Counsel find in Mildred's house?

9. As Skiffington begins to investigate the disappearance of Moses' family and Alice, what does he begin to suspect?

10. Why does Saskia Wilhelm's husband force her into prostitution? Where does Saskia end up?

(see the answer keys)

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