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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. What fear causes Clara to call Skiffington to her home?
(a) That her slave, Ralph, is going to kill her.
(b) That her slave, Ralph, is going to run away.
(c) That her slave, Ralph, is stealing from her.
(d) That her slave, Ralph, is dying.

2. Who does Caldonia believe is a better master to slaves--a white man or a black man?
(a) A black man with a white overseer.
(b) A white man with a black overseer.
(c) A black man.
(d) A white man.

3. Who opens the crate and frees Rita after her forty-one hour trip East?
(a) Augustus Townsend.
(b) A cop named Paddy Smith.
(c) An immigrant named Mary Conlon.
(d) William Robbins.

4. Why do the large landowners of Manchester County become unhappy with Sheriff Patterson?
(a) Due to the increase in crime.
(b) Due to an increase in the sheriff's salary.
(c) Due to the incidences of missing slaves.
(d) Due to incidences of cruelty against slaves.

5. Which woman does Elias develop an affection for while a slave on the Townsend Plantation?
(a) Delphie.
(b) Gloria.
(c) Celeste.
(d) Loretta.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the Act of 1806 require?

2. How does Augustus react to the news that Henry has become a slave owner?

3. What gift does John Skiffington's cousin, Counsel, give to him at the wedding?

4. What does Stamford believe is his fate?

5. Why does Loretta suggest fieldwork be suspended in the aftermath of Henry Townsend's death?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who asks Fern to take Henry on as a student? Why?

2. Where does Skiffington want to move and what does he plan to do with Minerva once they arrive?

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

4. What is significant about the fact that Henry Townsend owns slaves?

5. Who becomes sheriff after Patterson is pushed out of office?

6. What could Fern not break Henry of no matter how hard she worked at it?

7. For whom does Elias carve a doll? What is significant about this doll?

8. What causes the feud between Harvey Travis and Clarence Wilford?

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

10. Why does Stamford get into a fight with his cabin mate? What is the result of this fight?

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