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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. Why did Walter and Serafina have no family at Riverbend?
(a) All of their family members had been sold to other plantations.
(b) Their children had died, and their grandchildren had been sold to other plantations.
(c) They never had children.
(d) All of their family members had died.

2. What did Aberdeen and Curzon argue about as they traveled?
(a) If Aberdeen should join them in Rhode Island.
(b) What they should spend their money on.
(c) The war.
(d) What to eat.

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

4. What did Aberdeen suggest that Isabel should do while Ruth was ill and sleeping?
(a) Find healing plants in the woods.
(b) Talk to her about her past.
(c) Sing to her.
(d) Talk to her about her plans for the future.

5. Isabel, Curzon, Aberdeen and Ruth met some soldiers a few days after Ruth recovered from her illness. What did the soldiers want?
(a) Their money.
(b) Their food.
(c) To capture them as slaves.
(d) Their cart and donkey.

Short Answer Questions

1. What chronic disease did Ruth have?

2. What was the hardest difficulty for Isabel to deal with during the weeks after leaving Riverbend?

3. Why was Isabel nervous upon arriving at Willamsburg?

4. What was the first kind thing that Serafina and Walter did for Isabel and Curzon?

5. How did Curzon disturb the rattlesnake?

Short Essay Questions

1. What clues led Isabel to believe that Aberdeen was lying about his butcher shop job?

2. Why did Isabel cry when talking to Serafina?

3. What advice did Walter give Ruth before leaving her with Isabel, Curzon and Aberdeen?

4. Why did Ruth call the donkey Thomas Boon?

5. Isabel used a simile to describe her feelings when rejected by Ruth. What did she compare herself to?

6. How did Curzon help ease tensions upon their arrival at Riverbend?

7. Why did Isabel see when she looked at Ruth through "a stranger's eyes" (91) in Chapter XVI?

8. When Isabel arrived at Riverbend, what had changed about Ruth since the last time she saw her?

9. How did Anderson illustrate Ruth’s love of animals throughout their time at Riverbend?

10. Why did Serafina think Ruth should leave with Isabel?

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