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

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

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

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

5. How does Caldonia react to the stricken slave and Moses' part in forcing that slave to work sick?
(a) Caldonia removes Moses as overseer.
(b) Caldonia demands to be informed before Moses deals with a sick slave.
(c) Caldonia decides to sell Moses to another plantation.
(d) Caldonia accepts Moses' excuse and forgives him.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who decides to buy Jebediah when it is learned that he forged his freedom papers and is to return to his original owner?

2. Who gives food and shelter to Counsel when he reaches Merryville, Louisiana?

3. Why is Wilson Calhenny kicked out of medical school?

4. Who arrives in Manchester County, causing John Skiffington to think of Rip Van Winkle?

5. What ailment does Morris Calhenny suffer that only his slave, Beau, can help him overcome?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Mildred get killed?

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

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

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

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

7. How does John Skiffington get killed?

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

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

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

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