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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. Where does Dana start sleeping instead of the attic?

2. Who cannot speak at the Weylin household?

3. When Rufus uses the n-word when referring to Black people, how does Dana react?

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

5. Where are prices supposedly better for slaves than they are in Maryland?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who do the police think might have injured Dana in the Prologue?

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

3. Where do Kevin and Dana consider trying to go together if they are stuck in the 1800s, and why?

4. Why does Rufus not like to read?

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

6. What does Kevin insist Dana keep on her body for the next time she time travels?

7. How does Margaret Weylin treat Dana and why?

8. How does Dana save Rufus the second time she meets him?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What does "freedom" mean to different characters in this novel? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.

Essay Topic 2

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 3

What are some of the most extreme and/or emotionally wrenching examples of steps different characters take in the name of survival? Write an essay explaining your answers.

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