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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 information about Ramsey does Jebediah reveal to Fern that changes the climate of her marriage?
(a) That Ramsey gambled away the mortgage to their home.
(b) That Ramsey beats the slaves.
(c) That Ramsey cheats on her.
(d) That Ramsey is legally married to another woman.

2. Who is Ray Topps?
(a) A banker.
(b) A slave owner.
(c) A local merchant.
(d) An insurance man.

3. Who falls in love with Saskia, making life infinitely easier for Counsel Skiffington?
(a) An unhappy slave.
(b) A rival neighbor.
(c) A majority owner in the plantation.
(d) A creditor.

4. Why is Wilson Calhenny kicked out of medical school?
(a) For failing his mid-term exams.
(b) For killing patients with drug overdoses.
(c) For abusing the nurses.
(d) For admitting the cadavers speak to him.

5. Who does Moses think needs to be out of the picture to clear the way for Caldonia to free him and marry him?
(a) Louis and Calvin.
(b) Priscilla and Jamie.
(c) Elias and Celeste.
(d) Loretta and Bennett.

Short Answer Questions

1. How far from the Townsend Plantation does Fern live?

2. What profession does Saskia's husband force her into, first in Philadelphia, and later, North Carolina?

3. Who believes Fern and her husband continue to owe four hundred and fifty dollars?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Who buys Jebediah Dickinson upon learning that he is not free, but is a slave owned by a cruel pastor?

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

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

4. How does Mildred get killed?

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

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

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

8. What happens to Celeste that causes many of the slaves and Caldonia to begin questioning their faith in Moses?

9. How is Augustus killed?

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

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