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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Nash request assistance from Edward for?
(a) A boat.
(b) Finding a wife.
(c) Alcohol.
(d) Supplies for a mission school.

2. What happens to Nash's first son and first wife?
(a) They die of the African Fever.
(b) They survive the African Fever.
(c) They die on the way to Africa.
(d) They are murdered by white settlers.

3. Who is Martha's first husband?
(a) Paul.
(b) Mr. Hoffman.
(c) Chester.
(d) Lucas.

4. What does Edward find when he reaches Nash's settlement?
(a) Rusting farm equipment in a riverbank.
(b) A successful church run by Nash.
(c) A thriving missionary school.
(d) A successful farm with many crops.

5. What is the name of Martha's friend?
(a) Eliza Mae.
(b) Elinor.
(c) Marianne.
(d) Lucy.

6. What is going on in California during this time period?
(a) World War II.
(b) A depression.
(c) The California Gold Rush.
(d) Slavery.

7. What happens to Edward's wife?
(a) She is kidnapped.
(b) She is abandoned.
(c) She is murdered.
(d) She commits suicide.

8. When does Edward receive the letter from the American Colonization Society?
(a) 1837.
(b) 1838.
(c) 1841.
(d) 1835.

9. How many conversions to Christianity is Nash responsible for?
(a) 50.
(b) 200.
(c) 100.
(d) 20.

10. How does Edward feel at the end of "The Pagan Coast"?
(a) He feels angry.
(b) He feels speechless and dumbstruck.
(c) He feels jubilant and triumphant.
(d) He feels content.

11. Where does Martha flee to when she escapes?
(a) Dodge City, Kansas.
(b) California.
(c) Leavenworth.
(d) Canada.

12. What happens to the plantation once the new owner takes control of it?
(a) The plantation is liquidated.
(b) The plantation is destroyed.
(c) The plantation is revitalized.
(d) The plantation fails.

13. What time period did most of "West" take place in?
(a) 1700s.
(b) 1780s.
(c) 1900s.
(d) 1800s.

14. What is Nash's primary occupation circa 1840?
(a) Running a mission school.
(b) Farming.
(c) Trading.
(d) Doorman.

15. Where does Martha's friend go?
(a) She goes to New York.
(b) She goes to Utah.
(c) She goes to Denver, Colorado.
(d) She goes to California.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Edward get to Monrovia from Sierra Leone?

2. Who was Martha's daughter presumably sold to?

3. What happens to many slaves that repatriate to Liberia?

4. What does the American Colonization Society recognize as a secondary benefit of their program?

5. What does Edward find out about Nash from Madison?

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