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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Counsel run into as he enters Texas and finds himself surrounded by a pack of dogs?
(a) A group of fugitive slaves.
(b) A group of immigrants.
(c) A wagon train.
(d) A militia fighting Mexicans.

2. Where does Counsel hope to eventually make his home?
(a) Manchester County.
(b) New York.
(c) Arizona.
(d) California.

3. Why is Wilson Calhenny kicked out of medical school?
(a) For abusing the nurses.
(b) For failing his mid-term exams.
(c) For killing patients with drug overdoses.
(d) For admitting the cadavers speak to him.

4. Why were Saskia and her husband exiled from England?
(a) They were theives.
(b) They are murderers.
(c) They are black plague carriers.
(d) They had smallpox.

5. Who arrives in Manchester County, causing John Skiffington to think of Rip Van Winkle?
(a) Counsel Skiffington.
(b) William Robbins.
(c) Augustus Townsend.
(d) Moses.

6. Who do Darcy and Stennis finally manage to sell Augustus to for fifty-three dollars?
(a) William Robbins.
(b) Wilson Calhenny.
(c) Morris Calhenny.
(d) Hillard Uster.

7. What happens to nine-year-old Abundance Crawford during the journey south with the slave traders?
(a) She breaks a leg and is left abandoned on the side of the road.
(b) She becomes ill and is left with some racist slave patrollers on the side of the road.
(c) She dies and is left abandoned on the side of the road.
(d) She dies and they have a nice, impromtu funeral for her on the side of the road.

8. Who does Skiffington turn to for advice on the laws regarding freed slaves and whether than can be sold into slavery?
(a) Mildred Townsend, a freed slave.
(b) Harry Sanderson, his liaison in Richmond.
(c) William Robbins, a local landowner.
(d) Gilly Patterson, his former boss.

9. At whose home does Skiffington come to believe Moses is hiding out?
(a) Caldonia Townsend's.
(b) William Robbins'.
(c) Gilly Patterson's.
(d) Mildred Townsend's.

10. What information about Ramsey does Jebediah reveal to Fern that changes the climate of her marriage?
(a) That Ramsey gambled away the mortgage to their home.
(b) That Ramsey is legally married to another woman.
(c) That Ramsey cheats on her.
(d) That Ramsey beats the slaves.

11. Who decides to buy Jebediah when it is learned that he forged his freedom papers and is to return to his original owner?
(a) Caldonia.
(b) Fern.
(c) Maude.
(d) Robbins.

12. Who says that Moses is 'world stupid', implying that he does not know North from South?
(a) Bennett.
(b) Elias.
(c) Jamie.
(d) Loretta.

13. Who performs the procedure to hobble Moses?
(a) Travis.
(b) Counsel.
(c) Barnum.
(d) Oden.

14. What is the name on the wall hanging that Calvin sees in Washington D.C., causing him to write an excited letter to his sister, Caldonia?
(a) Patience Robbins.
(b) Henry Townsend.
(c) Alice Night..
(d) Minerva Skiffington.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who suggests that Moses be hobbled for running 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. What does Counsel Skiffington find inside the home while he is searching for Moses?

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

5. Who claims that Jebediah forged his freedom papers?

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