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

2. Who do Darcy and Stennis finally manage to sell Augustus to for fifty-three dollars?
(a) Hillard Uster.
(b) Morris Calhenny.
(c) William Robbins.
(d) Wilson Calhenny.

3. Who performs the procedure to hobble Moses?
(a) Travis.
(b) Oden.
(c) Counsel.
(d) Barnum.

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

5. 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 decides to sell Moses to another plantation.
(d) Caldonia removes Moses as overseer.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Moses afraid might see him as he makes his nightly forays into the woods?

2. How does the comment that Moses is 'world stupid' give John Skiffington a new place to search for Moses?

3. Who disappears from Caldonia's plantation in the days after Alice, Priscilla, and Jamie leave?

4. Who tells Skiffington that Travis sold Augustus Townsend to slave traders?

5. What happens to nine-year-old Abundance Crawford during the journey south with the slave traders?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Counsel find in Mildred's house?

2. What injury results in the amputation of Jebediah's foot? How does Fern respond to this operation?

3. As Skiffington begins to investigate the disappearance of Moses' family and Alice, what does he begin to suspect?

4. Who comes to Manchester County and takes a job as a deputy with the sheriff's office? Why?

5. What disease does Saskia Wilhelm contract that she exposes all the people on Counsel's plantation to?

6. Why does Moses force Celeste to work in the fields even though she claims to be sick?

7. Who is pressuring Skiffington to find Caldonia's missing slaves and what temptation is adding to Skiffington's stress?

8. Why does Moses encourages Alice, his wife, and son to run away?

9. Why does Skiffington go to Mildred's house looking for Moses.

10. Why does a man named Hiram Jenkins want to kill Counsel after offering him shelter and food the night before?

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