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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. What is an integral part of the history of the county according to Part 1, Chapter 1?

2. What did Pickens see South Carolina as having the power and right to do?

3. How many more murders than Massachusetts did the county have up until the 1930's?

4. Why did Butch leave the second institution?

5. When did Willie James become part of a gang?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Pickens become at the end of Part I, Chapter 2?

2. What happened in the Bosket family in 1943?

3. Who did Pud marry and how many children did they have?

4. Who was Miss Kramer?

5. Where were slaves kept for over a century?

6. Who was Tilda Mobley Pou?

7. What happened on March 6, 1941?

8. Who were the Bausketts according to Part I, Chapter 2?

9. Who was Francis Pickens?

10. How did Butch establish himself?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Analyze Fox Butterfield's statements in the Epilogue and determine whether or not prisons are a deterrent for crime.

Essay Topic 2

Define cycle of violence and discuss the pattern of violence as depicted in the Bosket family.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the new freedoms that freedmen benefited from and examine the new implications of what it meant to be free.

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