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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What unique problem does the arrest of Jebediah present for Sheriff Skiffington?
(a) Skiffington does not want to put a black in a cell often occupied by whites.
(b) Skiffington is confronted with health problems Jebediah will need help in controlling during his imprisonment.
(c) Skiffington does not believe Jebediah has commited a crime.
(d) Skiffington has too many prisoners to house another.

3. How does Caldonia react to the stricken slave and Moses' part in forcing that slave to work sick?
(a) Caldonia accepts Moses' excuse and forgives him.
(b) Caldonia demands to be informed before Moses deals with a sick slave.
(c) Caldonia removes Moses as overseer.
(d) Caldonia decides to sell Moses to another plantation.

4. Why does Moses force a sick slave to work in the fields despite protest from this person's family and friends?
(a) Moses does not believe the person is telling the truth.
(b) Moses is just mean.
(c) Moses dislikes this sick person and would be happy to see them die.
(d) Moses is angry at the rumors being told about him and wants to punish everyone.

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

6. 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 realizes that Moses might have gone south rather than north.
(d) Skiffington believes Moses would be afraid to leave the county he knows.

7. How does Topps define perishment?
(a) The point at which a food spoils.
(b) Fragility of human life.
(c) The moment an investment goes bad.
(d) The moment a slave chooses to runaway.

8. Why does Skiffington fight his lust for this other woman in his life?
(a) The Bible looks down on adultery.
(b) Skiffington loves his wife.
(c) The woman in question has rebuffed his advances.
(d) Skiffington is afraid it will become public gossip.

9. Who suggests that Moses be hobbled for running away?
(a) Travis.
(b) Barnum.
(c) Counsel.
(d) Oden.

10. 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.

11. Who claims that Jebediah forged his freedom papers?
(a) His owner, Rev. Wilbur Mann.
(b) Ramsey.
(c) Sheriff Skiffington.
(d) Oden Peoples.

12. Who takes care of Moses after he is hobbled and has fallen into a depression so deep he refuses to eat or see anyone?
(a) Caldonia.
(b) Alice.
(c) Elias.
(d) Celeste.

13. What fate lies ahead of Jebediah when it is discovered he has forged his freedom papers?
(a) Jail time.
(b) Constant beatings from his owner.
(c) Death.
(d) Sale to a new owner.

14. Who tells Skiffington that Travis sold Augustus Townsend to slave traders?
(a) William Robbins.
(b) Oden.
(c) Barnum Kinsey.
(d) Counsel Skiffington.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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 happens to the sick slave who Moses forces to work in the fields despite an illness?

4. Why does Skiffington count Oden and his testimony for Travis about Augustus as that of only half a man?

5. What is Skiffington concerned about in light of the number of missing slaves from Caldonia's plantation?

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