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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 Rufus's third injury?

2. What game is Dana horrified to hear the Black children playing?

3. Who raises Dana?

4. What does Kevin once ask Dana to do for him that she refuses to do?

5. What does Dana witness happening to Alice's parents in the woods?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do Kevin and Dana realize they have in common early on?

2. Why are white slave-owners so afraid of slaves learning to read?

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

4. Who is Rufus to Dana?

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

6. Where does Dana say she is from to most people in the 1800s, and why?

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

8. What does Dana ask Alice's mother for in Part I?

9. How does Dana save Rufus the first time she meets him?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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.

Essay Topic 2

Why do you think Butler chooses to describe the abuse and inhumanity of slavery - especially the beatings, killings, rape, and family separations the slaves endure - in such graphic terms? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.

Essay Topic 3

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.

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