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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part I: Chapters VII - X.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is significant about the day the novel opens?
(a) It is Miss Mary Finch's funeral.
(b) It is the funeral of a slave named Isabel.
(c) It is Christmas.
(d) It is the wedding of Mary Finch's niece.

2. Who is Curzon?
(a) A slave boy who offers to show Isabel the way to the water hole.
(b) A young man who is enamored of Madam Lockton's daughter.
(c) A slave boy who offers to show Isabel the way to the bakery.
(d) One of the soldiers who is searching the ship's hold.

3. What does Becky tell Isabel?
(a) That Mr. Lockton might try to take advantage of Isabel at night.
(b) That she needs to listen carefully to Madam Lockton.
(c) That Mrs. Lockton has a reputation of kindness.
(d) That the best times to buy bakery items is early morning.

4. What does Isabel naively believe when she talks to Curzon late at night?
(a) That she can trust Curzon.
(b) That she and Ruth will be freed that night.
(c) That the Locktons will be arrested that night.
(d) That her life would be better in an independent America.

5. From what illness does Ruth suffer?
(a) Bad heart.
(b) Epilepsy.
(c) Blindness.
(d) Consumption.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Isabel go after she talks with Curzon?

2. What do soldiers ask to search?

3. For what do the Loyalists want money?

4. What do the New York couple who are in town for business do?

5. What happens when the boat holding Isabel and Ruth docks in New York?

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