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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who takes care of Moses after he is hobbled and has fallen into a depression so deep he refuses to eat or see anyone?

2. 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?

3. Who does Skiffington believe is behind the disappearances of Alice, Priscilla, and Jamie?

4. Who does Robbins charge with finding Caldonia's lost slaves after admitting he has lost faith in John Skiffington as sheriff?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How is Augustus killed?

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

4. Why is Jebediah Dickinson arrested? What lie is revealed upon this arrest?

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

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

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

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

9. How does John Skiffington get killed?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss morality. What is morality? Are moral issues black and white? Should people own slaves? Should only whites own slaves? Should only black own slaves? Does it make more sense, morally, for a black to own a slave? Why or why not? Should slaves supervise and punish one another? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the theme of blacks owning slaves. Why would a black person own slaves? What purpose did the slaves fulfill? What other options did freed slaves have other than owning slaves? Why did some freed slaves choose to own slaves? How did this give them power? How did this change their standing in the community? Were blacks allowed to buy slaves at public auctions? Why or why not? How did freed slaves obtain slaves?

Essay Topic 3

Why does Caldonia begin an affair with Moses? Does Caldonia love Moses? Why or why not? How does learning of Moses' treatment of Celeste affect Caldonia's opinion of Moses? What does Moses do with his family when he begins an affair with Caldonia? Why? What does Skiffington believe Moses has done with his family? Why? Why does Moses barge in on Caldonia and ask why she has not freed him? Why does Moses believe Caldonia should free him? Will she? Why does Moses run away? Where does he go?

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