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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who is named overseer in the wake of Moses' disappearance?
(a) Elias.
(b) Stamford.
(c) Celeste.
(d) Louis.

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

4. 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) Elias.
(b) Celeste.
(c) Alice.
(d) Caldonia.

5. What does Counsel Skiffington take from a nice couple who nursed him through an illness in South Carolina?
(a) A horse and saddle.
(b) A horse and food.
(c) A mule and saddle.
(d) A horse and buggy.

6. What does Jebediah step on that causes an infection in his foot?
(a) A nail.
(b) A rattle snake.
(c) A scorpion.
(d) A mesquite thorn.

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

8. What ailment does John Skiffington suffer in the final chapters of the book?
(a) A headache.
(b) The flu.
(c) A toothache.
(d) Small pox.

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

10. 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) Robbins.
(d) Maude.

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

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

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

14. Who suggests to Caldonia that she buy insurance to cover her slaves?
(a) Maude.
(b) Skiffington.
(c) Louis.
(d) Robbins.

15. What disease begins to sweep through the plantation, leaving most of the family and slaves dead?
(a) The flu.
(b) Black Plague.
(c) Smallpox.
(d) Dyptheria.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who do Darcy and Stennis finally manage to sell Augustus to for fifty-three dollars?

2. Who does Skiffington believe is behind the disappearances of Alice, Priscilla, and Jamie?

3. Who arrives in Manchester County, causing John Skiffington to think of Rip Van Winkle?

4. Where does Counsel hope to eventually make his home?

5. Who does Robbins charge with finding Caldonia's lost slaves after admitting he has lost faith in John Skiffington as sheriff?

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