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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. Who is Dana's husband?

2. Who is Margaret Weylin attracted to?

3. Where did Kevin and Dana first meet?

4. Who is Carrie's mother?

5. Who cannot speak at the Weylin household?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Margaret Weylin treat Dana and why?

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

3. What does Rufus call Dana that she asks him repeatedly not to call her?

4. What does Dana lose on her last trip through time?

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

6. How does Kevin react at seeing Dana disappear in Part I?

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

8. Who asks Dana to teach him to read, and what does she say?

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

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

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

Which character or characters undergo the most extreme changes throughout the book? Write an essay explaining your answers.

Essay Topic 3

Why do you think Butler choose to end Dana's and Rufus's relationship with her killing of him? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.

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