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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. 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?
(a) Henry's.
(b) Caldonia's.
(c) Alice's.
(d) Louis'.

2. How long does Jebediah camp outside Fern's house before the slave patrol finally arrests him?
(a) One day.
(b) One month.
(c) One week.
(d) One year.

3. Why does this family turn on Counsel the very next morning, after offering him shelter and food the night before?
(a) Counsel was caught stealing a horse.
(b) Counsel allowed the woman of the house to seduce him.
(c) Counsel revealed himself to be prejudice against blacks.
(d) Counsel stole money from their home.

4. How much does Caldonia estimate Alice, Priscilla, and Jamie are worth based on the books Henry kept in regard to the slaves?
(a) Fifteen thousand dollars.
(b) Fifteen dollars.
(c) Fifty dollars.
(d) Fifteen hundred dollars.

5. What possession does Tessie show everyone, a possession she will cherish until she dies more than eighty years later?
(a) The doll Elias carved for her.
(b) A dress made for her dead baby sister.
(c) A horse and buggy carving Moses gave her.
(d) A horse Elias carved for her.

Short Answer Questions

1. What profession does Saskia's husband force her into, first in Philadelphia, and later, North Carolina?

2. Who does Moses think needs to be out of the picture to clear the way for Caldonia to free him and marry him?

3. Who has John Skiffington begun to lust after even as he begins to see his career falling apart?

4. What does Moses include in his reports to Caldonia every night?

5. Who takes care of Moses after he is hobbled and has fallen into a depression so deep he refuses to eat or see anyone?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Who does Fern meet on the road as she returns home from consoling Caldonia over her loss for the past five weeks?

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

5. What object will Tessie, Elias' daughter, ask her children and grandchildren to find for her on her death bed?

6. Who is pressuring Skiffington to find Caldonia's missing slaves and what temptation is adding to Skiffington's stress?

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

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

9. Why does Moses encourages Alice, his wife, and son to run away?

10. How does Mildred get killed?

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