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

2. What news does Linda grace Dr. Flint with on the day she is to move into her new house?
(a) She informs him that he is the father of her children.
(b) She informs him that she is free.
(c) She informs him that she is pregnant.
(d) She informs him that she is running away.

3. Linda's second child reveals the identity of which character?
(a) Her master.
(b) Her grandfather.
(c) Her father.
(d) Her grandmother.

4. Who does Linda bring with her to the plantation?
(a) William.
(b) Benny.
(c) Ellen.
(d) Aunt Marthy.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who must Linda wait for to help her return to her den after she meets Mr. Sands?

2. After Linda rejects Dr. Flint for the final time, where does he send her to work?

3. What item does Linda send to Dr. Flint to confirm his beliefs?

4. What does Linda convince her lover to do?

5. Why does William accompany Mr. Sands to Washington?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Benny justify that there must be a Santa Claus when another child tells him that Santa is fake?

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

3. Why is this book an important piece of American literature?

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

5. Describe in detail the area that Linda hides in at her Aunt Marthy's house.

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

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

9. Describe in detail who comes to tend to Aunt Marthy when she is very ill.

10. Why is Linda sent to work on the young Mr. Flint's plantation?

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