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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 the doctor often do as a cure-all?

2. How does Rufus describe his father?

3. What do the other slaves do to the person who betrayed Dana?

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

5. Where does Rufus say Dana is when she is at the Weylin house?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. What does Dana bring from her time that helps Rufus immensely?

7. What conclusion does Dana's cousin reach about her injuries in Part III?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How do Dana's earliest experiences with Rufus and the Wiley family set her expectations about living in the 1800s for her later "trips"? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.

Essay Topic 2

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 3

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.

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