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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. To whom does patroller Travis sell a dying cow?
(a) Henry Townsend.
(b) Clarence Wilford.
(c) Oden Peoples.
(d) Barnum Kinsey.

2. Who becomes Henry's mentor despite Augustus' disapproval?
(a) John Skiffington.
(b) William Robbins.
(c) Barnum Kinsey.
(d) Oden Peoples.

3. Where do Augustus and Mildred stay when they are visiting their son's plantation?
(a) The main house.
(b) An apartment over the garage.
(c) The slave quarters.
(d) A mother-in-law house.

4. What causes a fight between Stamford and his cabin mate, Clement?
(a) Lost possessions.
(b) The abuse of a child.
(c) Bitter words about a mutual friend.
(d) An interest in the same girl.

5. What do these men do to Augustus despite the fact that he is a free man?
(a) Sell him to William Robbins.
(b) Arrest him for being a run away slave.
(c) Arrest him for breaking the Act of 1806.
(d) Sell him to slave traders.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the first gift Elias ever whittled and who was it for?

3. Who does Fern say was the first freed slave she taught and possibly her brightest student?

4. Why does the slave, Stamford, insist on only consorting with young women rather than women his own age?

5. With whom does Skiffington side when the feud over Travis' cow gets out of hand?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does John Skiffington decide to get married in 1840?

2. Why do Robbins and Henry visit Skiffinton's jail while Broussard is imprisoned there?

3. Why does Fern disagree with the idea that blacks owning slaves is like owning your own family?

4. Before Henry is freed, who does he go with Robbins to Richmond to track down and return to Manchester County?

5. Who is Luke? How does he die?

6. What punishment did Henry demand for Elias after he attempted to run away? Why?

7. Where is Henry buried?

8. Who does Skiffington meet at his boss, Patterson's, house and where is she from?

9. What is Maude Newman's opinion as to what her widowed daughter, Caldonia, should do with her slaves?

10. Who is Augustus Townsend?

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