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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What possession does Tessie show everyone, a possession she will cherish until she dies more than eighty years later?
(a) A horse and buggy carving Moses gave her.
(b) A dress made for her dead baby sister.
(c) The doll Elias carved for her.
(d) A horse Elias carved for her.

2. What does Counsel Skiffington find inside the home while he is searching for Moses?
(a) Five gold bowls.
(b) Five silver rings.
(c) Five twenty dollar bills.
(d) Five twenty dollar gold pieces.

3. What does Augustus attempt to do the moment he is bought and paid for?
(a) Sue the slave patrol and the slave traders for kidnapping.
(b) Demand his freedom.
(c) Kill Darcy and Stennis for their cruelties.
(d) Return to Virginia.

4. Who gives food and shelter to Counsel when he reaches Merryville, Louisiana?
(a) The Travis family.
(b) The Jenkins family.
(c) The Elton family.
(d) The Morris family.

5. 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) Alice Night..
(c) Minerva Skiffington.
(d) Henry Townsend.

6. Who believes Fern and her husband continue to owe four hundred and fifty dollars?
(a) Mildred.
(b) Moses.
(c) Jebediah.
(d) Maude.

7. What language does the leader of this group Counsel runs into in Texas speak?
(a) French.
(b) English
(c) Spanish.
(d) Italian.

8. How does the comment that Moses is 'world stupid' give John Skiffington a new place to search for Moses?
(a) Skiffington believes Moses might have sought out refuge rather than attempt to leave the county.
(b) Skiffington believes Moses might have gone west rather than east.
(c) Skiffington believes Moses would be afraid to leave the county he knows.
(d) Skiffington realizes that Moses might have gone south rather than north.

9. 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) Alice's.
(b) Henry's.
(c) Caldonia's.
(d) Louis'.

10. Who disappears from Caldonia's plantation in the days after Alice, Priscilla, and Jamie leave?
(a) Stamford, Delphie, and Elias.
(b) Moses, Gloria, and Clement.
(c) Moses, Elias, and Celeste.
(d) Gloria and Stamford.

11. What profession does Saskia's husband force her into, first in Philadelphia, and later, North Carolina?
(a) Slavery.
(b) Prostitution.
(c) Nursing.
(d) Housekeeping.

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

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

14. Who does Mildred claim ignored her plea for help when she went to report her husband missing at the sheriff's office?
(a) Counsel.
(b) Barnum.
(c) Travis.
(d) Skiffington.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Ray Topps?

2. Who does Skiffington turn to for advice on the laws regarding freed slaves and whether than can be sold into slavery?

3. Why does Caldonia begin making silent visits to the slave quarters every night?

4. Who suggests that Moses be hobbled for running away?

5. How many free blacks do the slave traders sell along their journey south?

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