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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 ailment does John Skiffington suffer in the final chapters of the book?
(a) The flu.
(b) A headache.
(c) A toothache.
(d) Small pox.

2. What disease begins to sweep through the plantation, leaving most of the family and slaves dead?
(a) Black Plague.
(b) Smallpox.
(c) The flu.
(d) Dyptheria.

3. How long does Jebediah camp outside Fern's house before the slave patrol finally arrests him?
(a) One day.
(b) One month.
(c) One week.
(d) One year.

4. Why does Skiffington count Oden and his testimony for Travis about Augustus as that of only half a man?
(a) Oden is mentally impaired.
(b) Oden is a criminal.
(c) Oden is a freed slave.
(d) Oden is an Indian.

5. What language does the leader of this group Counsel runs into in Texas speak?
(a) Italian.
(b) French.
(c) English
(d) Spanish.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who suggests to Caldonia that she buy insurance to cover her slaves?

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

3. Whose birth does Moses claim to have been present at, even though the reader knows Moses was not in Manchester County until many years later?

4. What happens to the sick slave who Moses forces to work in the fields despite an illness?

5. What is the name on the wall hanging that Calvin sees in Washington D.C., causing him to write an excited letter to his sister, Caldonia?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. Why does Saskia Wilhelm's husband force her into prostitution? Where does Saskia end up?

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