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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10-18.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Isabel and Ruth parted ways from Curzon and Aberdeen in Williamsburg, what did they look for?
(a) Work.
(b) Food.
(c) A bathroom.
(d) A place to sleep.

2. How long had Isabel and Curzon been traveling together as the book opens?
(a) Months.
(b) Years.
(c) Weeks.
(d) Days.

3. What did Isabel do to help Ruth recover from her fever?
(a) Applied hot wet rags to Ruth's foot.
(b) Bathed her.
(c) Gave her medicine.
(d) Applied cold rags to Ruth's foot.

4. Why did Serafina have Ruth and Aberdeen hide in the hayloft with Isabel and Curzon?
(a) Because she did not want them to be beaten.
(b) Because she wanted them to have a rest from difficult labor.
(c) Because she wanted Prentiss to think they had already escaped.
(d) Because she wanted them to protect Isabel.

5. What made Isabel most nervous about working at the laundry?
(a) She did not like being away from Curzon.
(b) She did not think she was capable of doing the work.
(c) She thought Widow Hallahan would sell them back into slavery.
(d) She did not trust Ruth to deliver laundry by herself.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the beginning of the novel, where did Isabel think her sister Ruth was?

2. According to Aberdeen, who or what was the first friend that Ruth made at Riverbend?

3. When Ruth learned that Isabel and Curzon intended to take her to Rhode Island, why did she refuse to go?

4. Where did Isabel tell Serafina she planned on taking Ruth?

5. What about Isabel made Widow Hallahan suspicious?

(see the answer key)

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