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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Linda's lover propose to do for her?
(a) He proposes to move into Aunt Marthy's.
(b) He proposes to escape slavery with her.
(c) He proposes to marry her and wishes to buy her.
(d) He proposes to sell her to another slaveholder.

2. After Linda rejects Dr. Flint for the final time, where does he send her to work?
(a) Up North to work for a friend.
(b) To his doctor offices.
(c) To work for Mr. Litch.
(d) To the plantation.

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

4. What is the author's alias used in the story?
(a) Aunt Nancy.
(b) Linda Brent.
(c) Harriet Jacobs.
(d) Aunt Marty.

5. What does Dr. Flint do with the item Linda sends to her grandmother?
(a) He throws it away.
(b) He intercepts it and replaces it.
(c) Nothing. Linda does not send her grandmother anything.
(d) He gives it to her grandmother.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is Mr. Sands' response to Linda's demands?

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

4. Where does Dr. Flint clearly believe Linda escapes to?

5. Why do Benny and Ellen believe in Santa Claus?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Mrs. Flint react when Linda tells her of Dr. Flint's advances?

2. Describe Linda's reaction when she finds out that Mr. Sands has married.

3. How does Linda try to reinforce Dr. Flint's belief that she has escaped to the Northern states?

4. How does Mrs. Sands react when she finds out the relationship between Mr. Sands and Benny and Ellen?

5. Why is Linda pained to know that her child is Dr. Flint's slave?

6. In Chapter Two, Linda is sent to live with the Flints. Compare and contrast how the Flint household differs or is similar to Linda's first mistress' house.

7. List three to five examples of how slaves are humiliated and degraded by the slavery system.

8. Why does Linda want it to appear that she fled to the Northern states?

9. Explain why the pastor at the Episcopal Church is popular among slaves, but not popular among the slaveholders.

10. Why does Linda turn down a marriage proposal to a free black man whom she was very much in love with?

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