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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the year when Dana meets Rufus in his own living room?

2. What does Kevin insist Dana have on her body at all times in case she is pulled back in time?

3. Where does Kevin want to go to research things about the time Dana is pulled to?

4. What body part does Dana lose on her last trip home?

5. When does Kevin think Dana is pulled back into her own time?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Rufus get hurt again in Part II?

2. Why do Dana and Kevin start to suspect Dana is pulled to time-travel?

3. Why does Dana want Kevin to stay close to her in the 1800s?

4. What is one way Kevin tries to convince Rufus he and Dana are really from the future?

5. What does Tom Weylin ask Dana to do in Part II for him that surprises her?

6. Why does Dana suspect Margaret Weylin is so mean?

7. What does Kevin tell Tom Weylin he has told Dana about his relationship with Dana?

8. Why is Carrie the only one of Sarah's children not to be sold?

9. What does Dana witness when she goes to see Alice for the first time?

10. What does Kevin go to the library to research in Part I?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How does Dana help both the slaveowners and the slaves during her time-traveling? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.

Essay Topic 2

How do Dana's earliest experiences with Rufus and the Wiley family set her expectations about living in the 1800s for her later "trips"? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.

Essay Topic 3

What aspects of life in the antebellum South surprise - and disturb - Dana the most? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.

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