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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 are the slaves initially sold for?

2. What is the plantation called where Lizzy lives?

3. Where is Muhammad at the beginning of the book?

4. What does Muhammad call guns?

5. Where is Lem buried?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the most startling thing to Muhammad about his captors?

2. Why does Saran worry about David Turner when she is not with him?

3. What keeps Muhammad from sleeping at night while on the ship?

4. What makes it hard for many slave descendants to track their family history?

5. Why did Elijah and Abby fix up an old boat?

6. How did Lizzy first come to know Moses and Saran?

7. How does Foster die?

8. What does Julia tell Lizzy the difference between white people and black people is?

9. What kind of music does Abby love, and how does Saran feel about it?

10. What is Frank Petty widely known for?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How is the time-line of this plot different from most books, and how does it affect the tone and progression of the plot?

Essay Topic 2

Elijah and Moses are two characters who are very similar in their natures, but are markedly different in other ways. Use some examples from the text to compare and contrast these two dynamic characters.

Essay Topic 3

The characters in this book all have their own goals and motivations. Select four characters and write their main motivation throughout the book, discussing how this goal affects the characters around them.

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