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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why are the slave patrols formed?
(a) To find two slaves who escaped Robbins' plantation.
(b) To find Henry's parents after they ran away.
(c) To find two slaves Robbins mistakenly sold.
(d) To find slaves stolen by abolishonists.

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

3. Who is exempt from the Act of 1806 because of the generosity of local whites?
(a) Henry.
(b) Augustus.
(c) Mildred.
(d) Moses.

4. Who is Moses?
(a) Slave owner on a Virginia plantation.
(b) Overseer of slaves on a Virginia plantation.
(c) Son of a plantation owner in Virginia.
(d) Farmer in Virginia.

5. What object is Elias whittling in Chapter 1?
(a) A doll.
(b) A horse.
(c) A whistle.
(d) A bowl.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why does Skiffington believe slavery is just and should be preserved?

3. What is unusual about the fact that Henry Townsend owns slaves?

4. What does the Act of 1806 require?

5. Where does the shipping crate take Rita?

(see the answer key)

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