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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 Martha's daughter's name?
(a) Lucy.
(b) Martha.
(c) Eliza Mae.
(d) Marianne.

2. Where do most of Nash's students come from?
(a) From Europe.
(b) From a Congo slaver.
(c) From America.
(d) From a Liberian slaver.

3. What is the African Fever?
(a) Small Pox.
(b) Measles.
(c) Malaria.
(d) Scarlet fever.

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

5. How does Martha try to get to California?
(a) She travels with her friend.
(b) She goes with Chester in a wagon.
(c) She finds passage in a wagon of black people.
(d) She travels by herself.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the person who finds Martha in the doorway take her?

2. Where are the Hoffmans going?

3. What happens to Martha's boyfriend?

4. Why does Martha's new owner/master decide to sell her?

5. Where is the plantation that Martha is a slave at with her family?

Short Essay Questions

1. What spurs Edward Williams to go to Africa?

2. When and where was the last time Martha saw her husband and daughter?

3. What is the Voice of Africa?

4. What illness has killed many slaves?

5. Describe Martha's friend, Lucy.

6. Describe the fight that Chester had with some fellow poker players.

7. Who is Edward Williams?

8. What happens to Martha at the end of "West"?

9. What do you think happened to Martha's husband?

10. Briefly describe the journey that Edward Williams takes to find Nash.

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