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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. To whom does Revend Moffett preach obedience?
(a) White servants.
(b) Indentured slaves.
(c) The slaves.
(d) Law officials.

4. Who does Anderson Frazier approach to speak to about his latest writing project?
(a) Alice Night.
(b) Fern Elston.
(c) Caldonia Townsend.
(d) Mildred Townsend.

5. For what reason does one of the jurors on Broussard's trial believe the man was convicted?
(a) He had a foreign accent.
(b) He was a slaveholder.
(c) He was guilty.
(d) He was poor.

Short Answer Questions

1. What threat does Robbins level on Philamena when she returns from Richmond after her second attempt to run away?

2. 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?

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

4. Why does Stamford stop a couple of children from picking blueberries one late afternoon?

5. What object does Calvin own that inspires his dreams of moving away from Manchester County to find love and passion?

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