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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 does Rufus say Dana does not have to bargain with?

2. What does Tom Weylin die from?

3. What does the doctor often do as a cure-all?

4. Why is Dana's blouse stuck to her back in Part III?

5. What does Tom Weylin say the kindest thing Rufus could have done for Alice was?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Dana tell Tom Weylin about her continually saving Rufus in Part IV?

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

3. In Part IV, how long has Kevin been alone in the 1800s?

4. What does Dana tell the others in the 1800s about malaria?

5. When Dana goes back to the 1800s in Part IV after being home with Kevin, what does she immediately find?

6. What does Dana convince Rufus to do for Alice and Isaac because of his violence against them both?

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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.

Essay Topic 2

Write an essay explaining the significance of education, and educational inequalities based on class, race, and gender, in the antebellum South.

Essay Topic 3

Why do you think Dana and Kevin decide to travel to Maryland and trace the history of the people they interacted with through time-travel? Write an essay explaining your answers.

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