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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Maude keep pressuring Caldonia to do in Chapter 6?
(a) Sell the plantation and the slaves.
(b) Stop grieving and make a decision regarding the slaves.
(c) Free the slaves.
(d) Stop grieving and remarry.

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

3. What state are the slave traders who bought free man Augustus Townsend heading to?
(a) Florida.
(b) Georgia.
(c) North Carolina.
(d) South Carolina.

4. Where do Augustus and Mildred stay when they are visiting their son's plantation?
(a) A mother-in-law house.
(b) The slave quarters.
(c) An apartment over the garage.
(d) The main house.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Maude's husband, Tilmon, want to do with their slaves after the death of their third child?

2. Who does Henry attempt to choke during a disagreement over dinner at Fern's one Sunday night?

3. Who arrives in Manchester County, causing John Skiffington to think of Rip Van Winkle?

4. What word does Maude use to refer to Caldonia and Calvin's slaves?

5. Who is Luke?

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