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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. After traveling to where the slaves are held, with whom does Silas's nephew have sex?
(a) Sallie.
(b) Martha.
(c) Maggie.
(d) Opal.

2. What do some of Samuel's slaves offer to help Uther Botkin's slave with?
(a) The winter planting.
(b) The summer planting.
(c) The spring planting.
(d) The fall planting.

3. What is the name of the essay that Samuel Gatewood writes in Part I, Chapter 13?
(a) Remarks by a Plantation Owner.
(b) Remarks by a Slave Trader.
(c) Remarks by a Southern Abolitionist.
(d) Remarks by a Mountain Agriculturalist.

4. How do Alexander Kirkpatrick and his wife get to the jail after being sentenced?
(a) They walk.
(b) By horseback.
(c) They are dragged.
(d) By carriage.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of Silas's nephew?

2. How does Silas react after learning that his nephew had sex with a slave?

3. What are the names of Samuel Gatewood's children?

4. The woman traveling the countryside hears a lot about a storm. What is the name of the storm?

5. Why does Samuel Gatewood want his slave to be married?

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