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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 is named overseer in the wake of Moses' disappearance?

2. 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?

3. What does Counsel make Moses promise at gunpoint after Moses reveals himself by coming out of the house?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why does Moses force his way into Caldonia's house? What does he demand to know?

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

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

6. How is Augustus killed?

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Discuss one of the following themes from the novel:

1) Friendship

2) Slavery

3) Freed Slaves Owning Slaves

4) Extramarital Affairs

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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