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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Elijah's family use their parlor for, as explained in chapter 5?

3. What does MaWee ask Elijah to read to him in chapter 10?

4. Who offers to take several of Elijah's fish to relieve him of his burden in chapter 5?

5. Which type of animal does Elijah claim he prefers to ride in chapter 3?

Short Essay Questions

1. For what reason are the children sent home early from school at the beginning of chapter 4?

2. What tragedy does Elijah describe from Mrs. Brown's recent past?

3. What is important about the settlement of Buxton?

4. What does Mr. Leroy show Elijah in chapter 7? What is the significance about these things?

5. What is the basis of Madame Sabbar's act?

6. What does Elijah use as bait to catch his fish?

7. Why does Elijah feel as though the entire settlement of Buxton believes him to be fragile?

8. What does Elijah plan to do with fish he has caught? Who talks him out of four of his fish?

9. Why do Elijah and his friend, Cooter, begin tracking a snake one afternoon?

10. Why was MaWee replaced by a local white child in Madame Sabbar's act?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Compare and contrast the preacher to the white slave holder who informs Mrs. Holton of her husband's death. In this comparison list the cruelties each has committed and how they compare to one another, how they impact the people of Buxton and others, and the ways in which they are different. Discuss as well reasons why the author might have felt the need to offers these two representations of such cruelties.

Essay Topic 2

Who is Cooter? What kind of trouble does Cooter often find himself in? Why? Why does the schoolteacher dislike Cooter? Who is Cooter's best friend? What are some of the things they do together? How does this contrast with the childhoods these children's parents have had? Why do you think the author shows so much of these children's relatively carefree lives?

Essay Topic 3

What are slavers, or slave chasers? Why do two of these people come toward Buxton? What happens to them? What does the community think happened to them? How do they feel about this? What danger do slavers pose for the people of Buxton? Is it possible for the people of Buxton to be forced back into slavery? Explain.

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