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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Travis decide he wants the cow returned to him after he has already sold it?
(a) It begins producing milk.
(b) The new owner learns the cow is expecting a calf.
(c) It gets over the illness that should have killed it.
(d) The new owner sells it for more money than he paid for it.

2. What does Jebediah step on that causes an infection in his foot?
(a) A mesquite thorn.
(b) A rattle snake.
(c) A scorpion.
(d) A nail.

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

4. How many free blacks do the slave traders sell along their journey south?
(a) Four.
(b) Two.
(c) Five.
(d) Three.

5. What causes a fight between Stamford and his cabin mate, Clement?
(a) Bitter words about a mutual friend.
(b) An interest in the same girl.
(c) The abuse of a child.
(d) Lost possessions.

Short Answer Questions

1. What state are the slave traders who bought free man Augustus Townsend heading to?

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

3. Who disappears from Caldonia's plantation in the days after Alice, Priscilla, and Jamie leave?

4. Why does Skiffington believe the runaways are dead and buried somewhere in the woods?

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

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