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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 8 and 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are Cooter and Elijah looking at in chapter 1 when the preacher comes upon them?
(a) Snake tracks.
(b) Dog tracks.
(c) Bird tracks.
(d) Bear tracks.

2. What kind of horseflies does the preacher tell everyone lives in Buxton?
(a) The best eating ones.
(b) The noisiest ones.
(c) The least annoying ones.
(d) The biggest and most onery ones.

3. What does Elijah see wandering out of the woods in chapter 4 two days after the scare of the approaching slave catchers?
(a) A grey mule.
(b) A white horse.
(c) A ghost.
(d) A bloody man.

4. What weapon does Madame Sabbar use in her act in chapter 8?
(a) Slingshot.
(b) Knives.
(c) Rocks.
(d) Guns.

5. What kind of food did Frederick Douglass compare Elijah's birth to in chapter 2?
(a) Pound cake.
(b) Cherry pie.
(c) Bacon.
(d) Ham.

Short Answer 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?

2. What does the preacher say Elijah will be doing by attending the carnival in chapter 8?

3. What does one of the farmer's in line for Madame Sabbar's show insist is wrong with the barker's claims about her skills?

4. Where did Mr. Travis grow up?

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

(see the answer key)

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