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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8, What Slaves are Taught to Believe About the North | Chapter 9, Sketches of Neighboring Slaveholders.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Linda never go hungry?
(a) Linda is a cook and steals food.
(b) Linda's grandmother provides her with extra food.
(c) Linda is not a slave and is able to provide her own food.
(d) Linda is her slaveholder's favorite.

2. How do Northerners who move South and purchase slaves tend to treat their slaves?
(a) They tend to treat them kinder.
(b) They tend to treat them harsher.
(c) They tend to treat them the same.
(d) Northerners do not move South to purchase slaves.

3. Who finds it difficult to adjust to life in bondage in Chapter 2?
(a) Aunt Marthy.
(b) William.
(c) Linda.
(d) Susan.

4. Which character sees Benjamin in New York?
(a) Phillip.
(b) Linda.
(c) Aunt Marthy.
(d) William.

5. Which of the following terms best describes good, kind slaveholders?
(a) All slaveholders are good and kind.
(b) Do not exist.
(c) Common.
(d) Rare.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the author's alias used in the story?

2. Why do the slaves fear auction/hiring day?

3. What does Mrs. Flint take away from Linda?

4. What part of Linda's life is unusually happy for a slave?

5. How does the Flint family treat their slaves?

(see the answer key)

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