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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How far from the Townsend Plantation does Fern live?
(a) Eighteen miles.
(b) Eight miles.
(c) Eight-eight miles.
(d) Eighty miles.

2. Who falls in love with Saskia, making life infinitely easier for Counsel Skiffington?
(a) A majority owner in the plantation.
(b) A rival neighbor.
(c) A creditor.
(d) An unhappy slave.

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

4. What does Stamford believe is his fate?
(a) To live to see slaves freed.
(b) To live until he is the oldest man in the county.
(c) To die soon.
(d) To die of a wasting disease.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Travis decide he wants the cow returned to him after he has already sold it?

2. Why does Jebediah accost Fern on the road to her home?

3. Who does Augustus buy from his former owner, William Robbins?

4. What information about Ramsey does Jebediah reveal to Fern that changes the climate of her marriage?

5. Where does Counsel hope to eventually make his home?

(see the answer key)

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