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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 24, The Candidate for Congress | Chapter 25, Competition in Cunning.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What item does the young Mrs. Flint deny an old feeble slave?
(a) His medication.
(b) His share of work.
(c) His meat ration.
(d) His clothing.

2. Who offers to hide Linda after she has hidden in the bushes?
(a) A kind slaveholder woman in town.
(b) A kind slaveholder man in town.
(c) The Flints.
(d) Mr. Sands.

3. Who informs Linda that her children have been sold?
(a) Mr. Sands.
(b) Aunt Marthy.
(c) Betty.
(d) The Flints.

4. How are the biracial children of slaveholders treated?
(a) They stay with their mothers, but are granted freedom.
(b) They live with their fathers.
(c) They are treated the same as any other slave.
(d) The slaveholders did not father any illegitimate children.

5. The author anticipates that the reading public will judge her harshly for what action?
(a) Bearing children out of wedlock.
(b) Escaping to the North.
(c) Having an affair.
(d) Lying to her slaveholder.

Short Answer Questions

1. What event prompts Linda's town to have a muster?

2. Which character is jealous of Linda?

3. At what time of day are the slaves allowed to attend church?

4. How often does the town usually have a muster?

5. How do Northerners who move South and purchase slaves tend to treat their slaves?

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