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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. What is Tidbit's main concern in Part Seven?
(a) He wants to rest.
(b) He misses his mother.
(c) He is hungry.
(d) He wants Hushpuppy to be safe.

2. Why does Inez say that everyone is able to live peacefully in Fort Mose?
(a) Everyone is of the same race in Fort Mose.
(b) They do not have many possessions to fight over.
(c) All the men are fighting for the Spanish.
(d) The life is so easy in Fort Mose.

3. When Tidbit realizes in Part Eleven he will not be able to return to Teenie, what request does he make of Amari?
(a) That she ask Polly to be his new mother.
(b) That she let him go to make his own way.
(c) That she sends letters to Teenie.
(d) That she be his mother.

4. How do the children cross the St. Mary's River in Part Eleven?
(a) They ride atop Brownie.
(b) They locate a canoe.
(c) They turn back without crossing it.
(d) They cross a foot bridge.

5. How does Amari feel physically throughout their journey to safety and freedom?
(a) She is scared and disgusted.
(b) She is tired and sick.
(c) She worries that Mr. Derby will catch them.
(d) She is always thinking of getting Teenie to freedom.

Short Answer Questions

1. What job does Captain Menendez envision for Polly?

2. What is the name of the leader of Fort Mose?

3. How do Polly, Tidbit and Amari approach the entrance to Fort Mose?

4. Who finds the children in the abandoned hunting shack in Part Nine?

5. Why does Amari choose to go south rather than north in Part SEven?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Amari comfort Tidbit when he realizes in Part Eleven that he will most likely never see his mother again?

2. Explain the anger that both Amari and Polly feel in relation to their food poisoning.

3. What about Amari's condition surprises Fiona O'Reilly? What does this prove about her character?

4. Describe the plan the children devise for escaping Nathan's father.

5. Why might Hushpuppy's arrival in Part Six signal luck for the trip?

6. Examine Amari's thought that "I can't run anymore. Not from the past. Not from my future" (300).

7. What does the potential alligator on the other side of the St. Mary's River in Part Eleven symbolize?

8. What has Besa suffered since being sold into slavery, as shown in Part Nine?

9. Detail Polly's description of freedom.

10. What does the St. Mary's River represent for each of the children?

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