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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. How do both Dana and Kevin get home together again in Part IV?

2. What does Rufus make Dana throw in the fire?

3. What does Rufus say Dana does not have to bargain with?

4. What disease do people think Rufus has in Part IV?

5. What does Dana convince Rufus not to do to save Alice in Part III?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Dana ask Rufus to do for her that he lies to her about in Part III?

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

3. What does Rufus do to Dana and Kevin in Part IV that shocks her?

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

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

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

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

8. How does Kevin feel when he and Dana get home to 1976?

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

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

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

How does Butler's prologue shape and set the reader's expectations for the rest of the novel? Write an essay explaining your answers.

Essay Topic 3

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

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