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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why did John Skiffington leave North Carolina?
(a) His father had a dream that they should free their slaves and all the slaves of the state.
(b) To move to a state where slave ownership was legal and encouraged.
(c) To be closer to his father's relatives.
(d) To bury his mother in her home state.

2. Who does Caldonia marry three years after her husband's death?
(a) Louis.
(b) Counsel Skiffington.
(c) William Robbins.
(d) Moses.

3. Why does Stamford stop a couple of children from picking blueberries one late afternoon?
(a) The children are sick and tired.
(b) The children might hurt themselves on the bushes.
(c) So he can eat all the berries.
(d) A storm is coming.

4. What threat does Robbins level on Philamena when she returns from Richmond after her second attempt to run away?
(a) That he will beat her within an inch of her life.
(b) That he will make sure she is left with no money and no place to live.
(c) That he will see her hanged.
(d) That her freedom papers will mean nothing if he decides to sell her back into slavery.

5. What is unusual about the fact that Henry Townsend owns slaves?
(a) Henry was beaten by slaves.
(b) Henry is an abolitionist.
(c) Henry was once a slave himself.
(d) Henry is the child of slaves currently owned by a neighbor.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who are the majority of the employees at the hotel/restaurant/saloon that Alice, Priscilla, and James own in Washington, D.C.?

2. Which woman does Elias develop an affection for while a slave on the Townsend Plantation?

3. Why does Skiffington believe slavery is just and should be preserved?

4. What does the new sheriff organize to help crack down on runaway slaves?

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

(see the answer key)

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