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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. What is the author's purpose for writing this book?
(a) She hopes to aid the slaveholders.
(b) She thinks she is a great writer.
(c) She wants to be rich.
(d) She hopes to help change the destiny of the millions of women who still live in slavery.

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

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

4. 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.

5. When does the slave auction and hiring day occur each year?
(a) February 21st.
(b) January 1st.
(c) January 15th.
(d) December 25th.

Short Answer Questions

1. Approximately how many slave children has Dr. Flint fathered?

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

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

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

5. Dr. Flint tells Linda that he has seen an escaped friend of hers in the free states, living in such terrible circumstances that she begs for what?

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