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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. When Ruth learned that Isabel and Curzon intended to take her to Rhode Island, why did she refuse to go?
(a) Because she hated Isabel.
(b) Because Rhode Island was too far away.
(c) Because she loved Aberdeen.
(d) Because she thought that Walter and Serafina need her.

2. How did Curzon disturb the rattlesnake?
(a) By pushing over a log.
(b) By accidentally putting his hand on it.
(c) By stepping on it.
(d) By yelling.

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

4. Curzon left his fellow travelers when Ruth was sick; when he returned, what did he bring with him?
(a) A donkey and medicine.
(b) Medicine and food.
(c) Medicine and a chicken.
(d) A donkey and food.

5. Which of the following was NOT part of the group of people Isabel and Curzon spotted from the tree at Riverbend?
(a) An old woman.
(b) An old man.
(c) A young man.
(d) A baby girl.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How did Isabel feel when she realized that Walter and Serafina had become like family to Ruth?

3. How was Williamsburg different from cities like Philadelphia and New York?

4. Who were the first people Isabel and her friends met at Williamsburg?

5. Why were Isabel and Ruth walking up and down the main street of Williamsburg?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did Isabel want people who saw her and Ruth wandering around town to think they were slaves?

2. What is the narrative point of view of Ashes?

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

4. Why did Isabel and Curzon need to hide from the British soldiers?

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

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

7. How did Isabel and Ruth get jobs at the laundry?

8. Why did Isabel think that Curzon should not go searching for food for Ruth?

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

10. Why did Isabel and Curzon head to Riverbend instead of Charleston to look for Ruth?

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