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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Tom get high debts?
(a) He gambles.
(b) He write bad checks.
(c) He buys on credit.
(d) He gives his money away.

2. What does Percy threaten to do if the slaves do not admit who committed the crime?
(a) Put them in prison.
(b) Put them on a steam boat.
(c) Sell them to a plantation.
(d) Sell them down river.

3. Why does Roxana get all dressed up when she gets worried?
(a) She doesn't want to be recognized.
(b) She wants to appear to be a white woman.
(c) She wants to die looking nice.
(d) She wants to show her baby she cares.

4. What killed most of the most prominent man in town's nieces and nephews?
(a) Childhood illnesses.
(b) Allergic reactions.
(c) Strange accidents.
(d) A robber.

5. Who tells Roxana that Tom was briefly disinherited?
(a) Judge Driscoll.
(b) Aunt Pratt.
(c) Chambers.
(d) Tom.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the aunt of Tom not married to Judge Driscoll?

2. What elite society does Judge Driscoll belong to?

3. What was the most prominent man in town never able to have?

4. Who helps Roxana get back to Dawson's landing?

5. What does Tom say after his life has been saved?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Roxana notice when she dresses her son in Tom's clothes?

2. What does Roxana worry about after completing her plan to give her son a good life, and what happens?

3. What does Wilson like to collect from the people in town?

4. What does Tom do when he goes to college?

5. What happened to most of Judge Driscoll's nieces and nephews?

6. Why does Roxana quit her job, and what horrible surprise greets her?

7. What does Tom decide to do after his college experience?

8. What happens when some of Percy's slaves are accused of theft?

9. What does Roxana say when she meets with Tom in the haunted house?

10. How does Tom plan to pay his gambling debt when he meets with Roxana?

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