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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 does Alice tell Dana her body belongs to?

2. Who takes care of Dana when she is whipped in Part IV?

3. How does Rufus describe his father?

4. What does Dana use her denim bag for often?

5. Who does Dana really resemble?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does only Dana return to 1976 after both she and Kevin travel back to the 1800s together?

2. Why does Dana get beaten so badly in Part IV?

3. Who does Dana ask for help when she returns to 1976 in Part III, and why?

4. In Part III, what is one thing that scares Dana about Rufus?

5. Why does Dana begin to see that Rufus gets "rewarded" for behaving so badly?

6. Why does Tom Weylin end up sending a letter to Kevin telling him Dana is at his house?

7. Why does Rufus say Tom Weylin "had" to beat Dana for running away?

8. In Part III, how is Rufus's life in danger when Dana is called back to see him as an adult?

9. What is different between marriages between slaves and those between whites in the 1800s?

10. How does Kevin's family react to his marrying Dana, a Black woman?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Why does Dana think she and Kevin adjust so relatively quickly to the cultural expectations of them and their roles in the 1800s? 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

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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