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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 profession does Saskia's husband force her into, first in Philadelphia, and later, North Carolina?
(a) Nursing.
(b) Housekeeping.
(c) Slavery.
(d) Prostitution.

2. What happens to the sick slave who Moses forces to work in the fields despite an illness?
(a) Elias suffers a seizure.
(b) Delphie has a heart attack.
(c) Celeste gives birth to a stillborn baby.
(d) Gloria gives birth to a sickly baby.

3. Who decides to buy Jebediah when it is learned that he forged his freedom papers and is to return to his original owner?
(a) Caldonia.
(b) Maude.
(c) Robbins.
(d) Fern.

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

5. What does Counsel make Moses promise at gunpoint after Moses reveals himself by coming out of the house?
(a) To not tell anyone Counsel killed John Skiffington.
(b) To not tell anyone that Counsel killed Mildred Townsend for her treasures.
(c) To not tell anyone that the slave patrol sold Augustus Townsend into slavery.
(d) To not tell anyone about the treasure Counsel believes is still hidden in the house.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What possession does Tessie show everyone, a possession she will cherish until she dies more than eighty years later?

4. What disease begins to sweep through the plantation, leaving most of the family and slaves dead?

5. At whose home does Skiffington come to believe Moses is hiding out?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. How does Mildred get killed?

8. Why does Mildred not immediately report her husband missing when he does not return home from a business trip?

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

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

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