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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What disease begins to sweep through the plantation, leaving most of the family and slaves dead?
(a) The flu.
(b) Black Plague.
(c) Smallpox.
(d) Dyptheria.

2. What do the slaves on Townsend Plantation fear most when they hear of the death of Henry Townsend?
(a) They will be freed and forced to leave Virginia.
(b) They will be sold to less kind slave owners.
(c) They will be forced to continue working for the plantation.
(d) They will be sold and separated from their loved ones.

3. What did Maude's husband, Tilmon, want to do with their slaves after the death of their third child?
(a) Kill them.
(b) Free them.
(c) Buy more.
(d) Sell them.

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

5. 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?
(a) Louis'.
(b) Alice's.
(c) Caldonia's.
(d) Henry's.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is prisoner Jean Broussard accused of killing?

2. Who does Anderson Frazier approach to speak to about his latest writing project?

3. What does Caldonia swear she intends to do with the slaves?

4. Why do people believe Alice wanders at night?

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

(see the answer key)

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