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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. Who is Becky Berry?
(a) A slave belonging to the Bellinghams.
(b) The head maid of the Lockton house.
(c) The tailor's slave.
(d) The baker's daughter.

2. Where is the opening of the novel set?
(a) Pennsylvania.
(b) Rhode Island.
(c) Virginia.
(d) Vermont.

3. How does Colonel Regen react to Isabel's news?
(a) He thinks Isabel has been set up.
(b) He thinks she is exaggerating.
(c) He thinks they have said this as a trick.
(d) He believes her.

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

5. Who does Becky say nearly died?
(a) The Lockton's youngest daughter.
(b) The Lockton's oldest son.
(c) Becky.
(d) A female slave that Mrs. Lockton beat.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Isabel do after everyone in the household is asleep?

2. Where does Robert lead Isabel and Ruth?

3. What is significant about the day the novel opens?

4. Why is Ruth crying one afternoon?

5. What do soldiers ask to search?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens when Isabel goes and talks to Colonel Regen?

2. What does Becky Berry tell Isabel about Ruth?

3. What happens when the boat carrying Isabel and Ruth and their new owners lands in New York?

4. What does Miss Finch's nephew do with Isabel and Ruth and who tries to intervene?

5. What happens the morning after Isabel made a report to Curzon?

6. Why does Isabel ask the pastor for work?

7. Why do the soldiers remove the windows in the Lockton house?

8. What happens when Miss Finch's nephew comes up while Isabel is talking to the Pastor?

9. How does Isabel get into a secretive meeting of the Loyalists, and what how does she conduct herself?

10. How does Isabel feel about Ruth's assigned role in the household?

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