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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Alice often do as she walks down the road?
(a) Talks to herself.
(b) Calls for her missing family.
(c) Picks weeds.
(d) Sings.

2. Why do Alice's owners put up with her odd behavior?
(a) Alice is entertaining.
(b) Alice is a good worker.
(c) Alice is the daughter of the owner's cousin.
(d) Alice is a brillant artist.

3. Who digs Henry's grave before the funeral service?
(a) Moses, Elias, and Stamford.
(b) The male slaves.
(c) Calvin, Louis, and Augustus.
(d) Calvin, Robbins, and Moses.

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

5. What does the new sheriff organize to help crack down on runaway slaves?
(a) A fifty man militia.
(b) A twenty man deputy roll.
(c) A hundred man military regiment.
(d) A twelve man slave patrol.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Rita?

2. What is the first gift Elias ever whittled and who was it for?

3. Who is Reverend Moffett having an affair with?

4. Where do Augustus and Mildred stay when they are visiting their son's plantation?

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

(see the answer key)

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