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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 are Mr. Hall's plans to marry Sophy?
(a) He will think about it in a couple years.
(b) No plans.
(c) He wants to propose this month.
(d) He is thinking about it.

2. Who is Mrs. Shipman's sister?
(a) Laney.
(b) Lucy.
(c) Laury.
(d) Lucia.

3. What does Catherine see Mr. Holt doing with a group of boys one day?
(a) Playing baseball.
(b) Practicing penmanship.
(c) Reading from The Liberator newspaper.
(d) Rehearsing a play.

4. Chapter 8 addresses a heated debate between ______________ and the townspeople.
(a) Mr. Hall.
(b) Mr. Holt.
(c) Mrs. Shipman.
(d) Aunt Lucy.

5. Why does Catherine miss school in Chapter 7?
(a) She has a toothache.
(b) She has to help with the harvest.
(c) She is ill.
(d) She broke her leg.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Catherine tell about the phantom?

2. What has happened to Catherine's mother?

3. Mr. Hall tells his daughters a story about ___________________.

4. What does Catherine vow to do about the apparition?

5. Who had made the quilt given to the phantom?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who arrives for a visit at the Shipman house and how do Catherine and Cassie enjoy this person's visit?

2. What is the first journal entry in the book and by whom is it written?

3. How does a big snowstorm impact Catherine and her family?

4. How is Mr. Hall's crafting of a chair an element of foreshadowing for the story?

5. What news does Sophy tell her friends about where she will be going and why she is going there?

6. What do Asa and Catherine decide to do when they determine that the phantom is a runaway slave?

7. How does sexism surface again in the story--this time regarding math studies?

8. Explain the theme of redemption regarding the Count of Zincheroff.

9. How do Mr. Hall and Uncle Jack differ on their opinions of runaway slaves?

10. How does the author use the metaphor of a growing infant to indicate the change in seasons?

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