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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. What is Sweet doing when the slave women go to her cabin?
(a) She is naked and lying on her bed.
(b) She is reading poems.
(c) She is cooking.
(d) She is in the fetal position on the floor.

2. Why has Mawu not traveled on to Canada?
(a) She is waiting for Lizzie to escape too.
(b) She needs more money.
(c) She is waiting for information about the next stop in the Underground Railroad.
(d) She is afraid.

3. How does Fran react when Lizzie tells her that she has drunk a special tea to abort a baby?
(a) She threatens to slap Lizzie.
(b) She laughs.
(c) She doesn't say anything.
(d) She cries.

4. Drayle makes arrangements for the slaves to go to _______________ to do something nice for Sweet.
(a) Dayton.
(b) Columbus.
(c) Cincinnati.
(d) Xenia.

5. Drayle tells Lizzie that the Tawawa House is to be converted into ________________________.
(a) An insane asylum.
(b) A school for black children.
(c) A prison.
(d) A convent.

Short Answer Questions

1. Drayle takes Philip and Lizzie on a steamship trip to which state?

2. Where is Sweet's body found?

3. What is the name of the town which is the destination of the summer trips?

4. What does Mawu give to Lizzie before she leaves?

5. What is the cause of the rash on Sweet's neck and shoulders?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the author address the topics of slave catchers and abolitionists?

2. Does the author bring closure to Lizzie's story at the end of the novel?

3. How does the African legend of Mawu and Lisa give Lizzie hope for her future?

4. How is Lizzie's bondage on the ship more like a slave than a preferred mistress?

5. Describe how the old man who was a freed slave traveling on the train to Ohio signifies the importance of freedom regardless of age?

6. What frightens Lizzie about the prospect that Drayle could free Philip?

7. Why does Sweet's master behave so cavalierly at her death?

8. How does the absence of Sweet, Reenie and Mawu alter Lizzie's feelings about Drayle?

9. What is Reenie's position on aging and freedom?

10. Why is Sweet's death so bittersweet for the women?

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