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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is Luke?
(a) A twelve year old boy Celeste and Elias have befriended.
(b) The twelve year old son of Moses.
(c) A twelve year old slave who makes trouble on the Townsend plantation.
(d) The twelve year old son of Henry Townsend.

2. Why was a white woman hanged in Bristol in front of more than three hundred people?
(a) For laying with a slave.
(b) For helping a slave escape.
(c) For adultery.
(d) For handing out abolishonist pamphlets.

3. What does Calvin swear he would do with his own slaves if his mother was not standing in his way?
(a) Work them harder.
(b) Free them.
(c) Sell them.
(d) Whip them.

4. Who does Mildred claim ignored her plea for help when she went to report her husband missing at the sheriff's office?
(a) Skiffington.
(b) Barnum.
(c) Counsel.
(d) Travis.

5. Why does Skiffington believe the runaways are dead and buried somewhere in the woods?
(a) Alice's body was found by the side of the road.
(b) Elias came forward as a witness to the crime.
(c) No one has seen them since they disappeared and Moses has motive.
(d) Moses admitted the crime.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Caldonia order Moses to do in the future in regard to decisions about the slaves?

2. Who tells Skiffington that Travis sold Augustus Townsend to slave traders?

3. Why does the slave, Stamford, insist on only consorting with young women rather than women his own age?

4. What has Fern's mother taught her about the man she should marry?

5. What does Augustus show these people that are later destroyed by one of these men?

(see the answer key)

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