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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. What does Roxana call her son?
(a) Chuck.
(b) Charles.
(c) Chaz.
(d) Chambers.

2. How long does Roxana work on the steamboat?
(a) 5 years.
(b) 8 years.
(c) 7 years.
(d) 6 years.

3. What do people do to cure their curiosity when Aunt Patsy has some visitors?
(a) They ask Aunt Patsy about them.
(b) They send Judge Driscoll to learn about them.
(c) They hold a party for them.
(d) They go to visit them.

4. Why does Tom agree to meet with Roxana?
(a) She says she has information that will help with his debts.
(b) She says he owes it to her to talk to her.
(c) She says she knows something that will get him disinherited.
(d) She says she has seen him down town.

5. Why does Roxana's baby not look like a slave?
(a) His father was white.
(b) He has light hair.
(c) He is fair skinned.
(d) He was raised in a white household.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Roxana cleared of the crime that the Percy slaves were accused of?

2. Where is Tom supposed to be when a woman is seen in his bedroom?

3. What does Tom do that disappoints Judge Driscoll?

4. What elite society does Judge Driscoll belong to?

5. How do Tom's aunts treat him?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why does Tom have such few friends after his college experience?

3. What caused Tom to get cut out of Judge Driscoll's will the first time?

4. Who is the most prominent person in Dawson's Landing?

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

6. Why is Roxana not accused of being part of the theft?

7. What strange sight does Wilson see in Tom's room one night?

8. What does Wilson decide to do when he sees that having a law practice will not be possible in the new town?

9. What makes Aunt Patsy something of a celebrity in the town?

10. How does Wilson make a negative impression on the town?

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