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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whose birth does Moses claim to have been present at, even though the reader knows Moses was not in Manchester County until many years later?
(a) Caldonia's.
(b) Alice's.
(c) Louis'.
(d) Henry's.

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

3. Who claims to be sick the following day and unable to work in the fields as ordered?
(a) Celeste.
(b) Gloria.
(c) Elias.
(d) Delphie.

4. Who is prisoner Jean Broussard accused of killing?
(a) His wife.
(b) His brother.
(c) His neighbor.
(d) His business partner.

5. Who stops Augustus as he makes his way home after delivery furniture to a client?
(a) Peoples, Kinsey, and Elias.
(b) Travis, Skiffington, and Robbins.
(c) Travis, Peoples, and Kinsey.
(d) Skiffington, Robbins, and Thomas.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Augustus react to the news that Henry has become a slave owner?

2. What place does Calvin dream of going to, in hopes that his passions will be reciprocated?

3. With whom does Skiffington side when the feud over Travis' cow gets out of hand?

4. How many free blacks do the slave traders sell along their journey south?

5. Who disappears from Caldonia's plantation in the days after Alice, Priscilla, and Jamie leave?

(see the answer key)

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