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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is chosen to be sheriff when Patterson resigns two years later?
(a) Counsel Skiffington.
(b) William Robbins.
(c) Henry Townsend.
(d) John Skiffington.

2. Why did John Skiffington leave North Carolina?
(a) To be closer to his father's relatives.
(b) His father had a dream that they should free their slaves and all the slaves of the state.
(c) To bury his mother in her home state.
(d) To move to a state where slave ownership was legal and encouraged.

3. What does Robbins want to see happen to help support the sheriff's actions?
(a) A military regime brought in.
(b) A slave patrol organized.
(c) A militia formed.
(d) An increase in the number of deputies.

4. Who is Rita?
(a) A slave who became surrogate mother to Henry Townsend after his parents bought their freedom.
(b) A slave who knows how to read and teaches others to read.
(c) A slave who works as personal maid to Robbins' wife.
(d) A slave who was killed by a slave owner attempting to cause fear in other runaway slaves.

5. Why do the large landowners of Manchester County become unhappy with Sheriff Patterson?
(a) Due to the incidences of missing slaves.
(b) Due to an increase in the sheriff's salary.
(c) Due to incidences of cruelty against slaves.
(d) Due to the increase in crime.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who opens the crate and frees Rita after her forty-one hour trip East?

2. What does Rita hide under inside this crate in order to escape?

3. Why do Alice's owners put up with her odd behavior?

4. What is John Skiffington's job at the time he decides to marry?

5. Who dies as his wife and teacher discuss the fate of two slaves whose owner has died?

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