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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. With whom does Skiffington side when the feud over Travis' cow gets out of hand?
(a) Neither.
(b) Travis.
(c) Both.
(d) The new owner.

2. Where does Skiffington tell his wife he would someday like to move to?
(a) Philadelphia.
(b) Georgia.
(c) California.
(d) Back to North Carolina.

3. Why does Skiffington count Oden and his testimony for Travis about Augustus as that of only half a man?
(a) Oden is an Indian.
(b) Oden is mentally impaired.
(c) Oden is a criminal.
(d) Oden is a freed slave.

4. Who runs away from the Townsend Plantation under pressure from Moses?
(a) Alice, Elias, and Celeste.
(b) Alice, Loretta, and Bennett.
(c) Alice, Pricilla, and Jamie.
(d) Alice, Louis, and Calvin.

5. Who is Rita?
(a) A slave who knows how to read and teaches others to read.
(b) A slave who was killed by a slave owner attempting to cause fear in other runaway slaves.
(c) A slave who works as personal maid to Robbins' wife.
(d) A slave who became surrogate mother to Henry Townsend after his parents bought their freedom.

Short Answer Questions

1. What disease begins to sweep through the plantation, leaving most of the family and slaves dead?

2. What does Frazier's interviewee claim made slavery okay?

3. Why did John Skiffington leave North Carolina?

4. What decision does Moses make that angers Caldonia?

5. What do these men do to Augustus despite the fact that he is a free man?

(see the answer key)

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