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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 1-5.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why was Solomon confident that everything would be fine at home if he left town with Merrill Brown and Abram Hamilton?
(a) Because all of his family members were engaged in routine activities.
(b) Because he did not expect to be gone for very long.
(c) Because he trusted his wife, Anne to handle things while he was gone. She had done it before.
(d) Because the children did not need a babysitter; and his wife, Anne was too busy to notice his absence.

2. Which adjective pair best described Solomon, his brother, and father?
(a) Fun-loving and fair.
(b) Hardworking and respectable.
(c) Generous and hardworking.
(d) Critical and respectable.

3. How did Solomon feel about the way that Merrill Brown and Abram Hamilton treated him while on the way to New York?
(a) He did not have an opinion about the way the men treated him.
(b) He questioned the way that they treated him.
(c) He felt that the men should have treated him better.
(d) He felt good about the way the men treated him.

4. Why did Author Solomon Northrup write Twelve Years a Slave?
(a) Because he had always kept a journal about events in his life.
(b) Because no one had written a book about a free man subjected to slavery.
(c) Because there was widespread interest in the 12 years that he had spent in slavery.
(d) Because he wanted to become rich and famous.

5. How could Solomon best be described as he argued with Burch right before his beating?
(a) He was unyielding.
(b) He was committed.
(c) He was aggressive.
(d) He was remorseful.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Solomon learn while spending time in the yard outside Williams' Slave Pen?

2. Which of the entertainment-type acts that Merrill Brown and Abram Hamilton specialized in could account for their ability to persuade Solomon to travel with them based on a promise of high wages that unexpectedly took a turn and thrust him into the clutches of slavery instead?

3. In what order did the events listed take place in Solomon's life?

4. If Solomon should have been paying attention to anything that was happening while he traveled with Brown and Hamilton that may have been a clear indicator that things may not really be the way that they appeared to be, what should it have been?

5. How were Solomon and the other slaves treated around Goodin's Pen in Richmond, Virginia?

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