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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Entry 2: June 20, 1830.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where did freedman Rutherford Calhoun work when he was a slave?
(a) In the corn fields.
(b) As a house slave.
(c) In the gardens.
(d) In the cotton fields.

2. After Rutherford's new friend passes out from alcohol, what does Rutherford do?
(a) Steals the man's work papers and boards the ship as him.
(b) Steals the man's work papers and uses his identity to start a new life in Alabama.
(c) Boards the ship as a stowaway.
(d) Goes home and prepares for his wedding.

3. What is the term used for the toilet?
(a) Honey bucket.
(b) Bilge.
(c) Loo.
(d) Head.

4. Falcon tells Rutherford that it is his bet Rutherford will be ________________ by the time the ship returns to New Orleans.
(a) A ship's officer.
(b) A slave.
(c) Dead.
(d) A man's man.

5. During his sob story, how did Rutherford say his mother had died?
(a) Of disease, during passage from Africa.
(b) Of overwork, in the fields of Illinois.
(c) In bed, of old age.
(d) In childbirth, giving birth to his baby sister.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Cringle have a sixth sense about?

2. When is the only time Cringle seems to relax?

3. What is Mr. Zeringue?

4. How many bullet holes does Captain Falcon's door have in it?

5. When he arrives in New Orleans, where does Rutherford try, but fail, to find work?

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