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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. How does the Flint family treat their slaves?
(a) With love.
(b) With cruelty.
(c) With kindness.
(d) With respect.

2. When Linda is sent to the Flint house she witnesses countless horrors. Why is one slave beaten within an inch of his life?
(a) The slave spits at Dr. Flint.
(b) The slave suspects Dr. Flint is the father of his wife's child.
(c) The slave fathers a child with Mrs. Flint.
(d) The slave steals food from Dr. Flint's daughter.

3. What part of Linda's life is unusually happy for a slave?
(a) Her childhood.
(b) Her adulthood.
(c) Her tweens.
(d) Her adolesence.

4. Who does Linda fall in love with?
(a) John.
(b) William.
(c) Dr. Flint.
(d) A free black man in her town.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How are the biracial children of slaveholders treated?

2. What do the slaveholders tell the slaves about life in the Northern states?

3. How are Aunt Marthy and Linda related?

4. Who finds it difficult to adjust to life in bondage in Chapter 2?

5. What happens to Linda when she reaches the age of 15?

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