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

2. Why does Moses force a sick slave to work in the fields despite protest from this person's family and friends?
(a) Moses is angry at the rumors being told about him and wants to punish everyone.
(b) Moses is just mean.
(c) Moses dislikes this sick person and would be happy to see them die.
(d) Moses does not believe the person is telling the truth.

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

4. Who disappears from Caldonia's plantation in the days after Alice, Priscilla, and Jamie leave?
(a) Moses, Gloria, and Clement.
(b) Gloria and Stamford.
(c) Moses, Elias, and Celeste.
(d) Stamford, Delphie, and Elias.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What ailment does John Skiffington suffer in the final chapters of the book?

2. What does Counsel make Moses promise at gunpoint after Moses reveals himself by coming out of the house?

3. Why does Skiffington count Oden and his testimony for Travis about Augustus as that of only half a man?

4. Who suggests that Moses be hobbled for running away?

5. What does Moses expect Caldonia to do for him now that his family is gone and he is Caldonia's lover?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Why does Moses force his way into Caldonia's house? What does he demand to know?

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

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

8. How does John Skiffington get killed?

9. What does Caldonia buy for her slaves that she earlier rejected but now sees as an asset.

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

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