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

2. What happens to the sick slave who Moses forces to work in the fields despite an illness?

3. Who does Caldonia marry three years after her husband's death?

4. How long does Jebediah camp outside Fern's house before the slave patrol finally arrests him?

5. What unique problem does the arrest of Jebediah present for Sheriff Skiffington?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Why is Augustus stopped on the road as he travels home after selling some furniture? Who stops him? What do they ask to see? What do they do with this item? Why? Who comes across this scene? What do these people offer the newcomers? Why is Augustus sold into slavery? Is there a law against this? What is the law? How might it help Augustus? Why does this law not help Augustus at this point?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the underground railroad. What was the underground railroad? Who did it help? Was it dangerous? Who was in the most danger? What evidence of the railroad is found in this novel? Who was working the underground railroad in this novel? Why? Were these people caught? Why or why not? Who might these people have helped? What evidence is there?

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