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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part I: Chapters Eight through Thirteen.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. By whom is the woman traveling the countryside in Part I, Chapter 1, employed?
(a) Works Progress Administration.
(b) Remembering Our Past Project.
(c) United America Administration.
(d) Moving Forward Organization.

2. How many months after Uther Botkin's wife gives birth does she die?
(a) Twelve.
(b) Nine.
(c) Six.
(d) Three.

3. How much money is the slave that Silas's nephew had sex with being sold for?
(a) Twelve hundred dollars.
(b) Two thousand dollars.
(c) Sixteen hundred dollars.
(d) One hundred dollars.

4. As the story opens, what is the young woman traveling the countryside in search of?
(a) Those who remember the days of the Civil War.
(b) Those who remember her great-grandmother.
(c) Those who remember her great-grandfather.
(d) Those who remember the days of slavery.

5. Miss Marguerite begins telling the traveling young woman in Part I, Chapter 1 a story. Where does the story take place?
(a) Stratford Plantation in Virginia.
(b) Gatewood Plantation in South Carolina.
(c) O'Hara Plantation in Mississippi.
(d) Mumford Plantation in North Carolina.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who accompanies Alexander Kirkpatrick and his wife to the jail after they are sentenced?

2. Whom does Uther Botkin's slave wish could help her with the planting, but can't because he is in jail?

3. Why does a judge sentence Alexander Kirkpatrick and his wife to jail?

4. What does Alexander Kirkpatrick's wife wish she had done before she was sentenced to jail?

5. What property does Samuel Gatewood own?

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