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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. Where does Counsel hope to eventually make his home?
(a) Arizona.
(b) New York.
(c) Manchester County.
(d) California.

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

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

4. What does Moses expect Caldonia to do for him now that his family is gone and he is Caldonia's lover?
(a) To sell him.
(b) To move him into the main house.
(c) To make him a paid employee.
(d) To free him.

5. Why was a white woman hanged in Bristol in front of more than three hundred people?
(a) For handing out abolishonist pamphlets.
(b) For helping a slave escape.
(c) For laying with a slave.
(d) For adultery.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Caldonia begin making silent visits to the slave quarters every night?

2. Why does this family turn on Counsel the very next morning, after offering him shelter and food the night before?

3. Why does Skiffington believe the runaways are dead and buried somewhere in the woods?

4. Who performs the procedure to hobble Moses?

5. How does Topps define perishment?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who does Caldonia put in charge of the slaves after Moses runs away?

2. How is Augustus killed?

3. What object will Tessie, Elias' daughter, ask her children and grandchildren to find for her on her death bed?

4. How does Mildred get killed?

5. How does John Skiffington get killed?

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

7. Who does Fern meet on the road as she returns home from consoling Caldonia over her loss for the past five weeks?

8. Why does Counsel burn his own plantation house down in Chapter 7?

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

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

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