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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. 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?

2. Who do Darcy and Stennis finally manage to sell Augustus to for fifty-three dollars?

3. Who is named overseer in the wake of Moses' disappearance?

4. Who has John Skiffington begun to lust after even as he begins to see his career falling apart?

5. Why does Jebediah accost Fern on the road to her home?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. How is Augustus killed?

8. How does Mildred get killed?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss Counsel Skiffington. Who is Counsel? What happens to Counsel's family? Where does Counsel go after this? Why? What happens to Counsel on his journey? What is unusual about these events? How does Counsel respond? Where does Counsel eventually settle? Why? How does Counsel perform at his new job? Is his reaction to pleas for help from the black community favorable? How does this reaction reflect Counsel's personal opinion of blacks? Why does Counsel kill his cousin?

Essay Topic 2

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?

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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