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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Butch sent after appearing in children's court?

2. What was Butch first diagnosed as at Bellevue Hospital?

3. Who did Aaron marry?

4. Where did Frances Bosket move to at the start of Part II, Chapter 5?

5. Why had the hanged man killled his boss at the start of Part 1, Chapter 4?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did the slave trade benefit South Carolina's white population and how were slaves a threat?

2. What did W.E.B. DuBois acknowledge?

3. What was the most violent county in the United States according to Part 1, Chapter 1?

4. What did Marie tell the court in Part II, Chapter 6?

5. What violent conditions did Scottish-Irish settlers perpetuate?

6. What did the eldest son of Captain Butler do?

7. How did race relations further deteriorate?

8. What happened in the pawn shop in Milwaukee?

9. Where were slaves kept for over a century?

10. What was the double standard that persisted?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the role of the NAACP in helping to get Butch Bosket paroled from prison.

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the warrior ethic and its implications for those living in South Carolina.

Essay Topic 3

Examine the history of slavery in South Carolina and discuss how slavery created a culture of violence.

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