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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 6 and 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where did the preacher tell people he got the fancy pistol he carries on his hip, as Elijah explains it in chapter 4?
(a) He found it in the woods.
(b) He took it as a tithe payment from a devoted Christian.
(c) He inherited from a dead brother.
(d) He bought it in Detroit.

2. Where does Flapjack spend all his time while Elijah fishes in chapter 3?
(a) Lying on the beach.
(b) The blackberry bushes.
(c) The water.
(d) The stable.

3. Where did Mr. Travis grow up?
(a) Ontario.
(b) Ohio.
(c) California.
(d) New York.

4. Who chastises Elijah and Cooter in chapter 1 after they put a frog in the knitting of Elijah's mother?
(a) Elijah's father.
(b) Mr. Taylor.
(c) Mr. Leroy.
(d) The preacher.

5. How did Mr. Travis behave, in Cooter's opinion, when they met the Saturday before the opening of chapter 6?
(a) Friendly.
(b) Kind and gentle.
(c) Increasingly upset about something.
(d) Rudely.

Short Answer Questions

1. For whom did Mr. Leroy build a house all by himself?

2. What kind of food did Frederick Douglass compare Elijah's birth to in chapter 2?

3. Why does Elijah's mother warn him not to stay out too late in chapter 5?

4. Who does Mr. Leroy tell Elijah in chapter 7 cut off his little finger of his left hand?

5. What does Elijah see wandering out of the woods in chapter 4 two days after the scare of the approaching slave catchers?

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