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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 Percy threaten to do if the slaves do not admit who committed the crime?

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

3. Why is Wilson unable to get good clients in the new town?

4. How many times in the babies's first year of life does Wilson take samples from them?

5. When does Tom agree to meet with Roxana?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. How does Roxana feel about Tom's plan to pay his gambling debt?

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

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

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

9. What does Judge Driscoll do when the Italian twins come to town?

10. How does Tom treat Chambers and Roxana as he grows up?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How does Chambers respond to his freedom, and why is this so surprising?

Essay Topic 2

Choosing sides is a theme that is presented in this book in the trial. What are some of the examples of this theme appearing, and how does it affect the characters involved?

Essay Topic 3

Aunt Patsy was a minor character whose presence made a big difference in the plot. How did she accomplish this? What are some ways that her presence, however brief, altered the outcome of the plot? What would have happened differently if she had not been in the book at all?

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