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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. For how long does Sam stay on the farm before departing in "Indiana"?
(a) Two weeks.
(b) Two days.
(c) Three days.
(d) One day.

2. How is Mabel killed?
(a) She is bitten by an alligator.
(b) She is shot.
(c) She is bitten by a cottonmouth.
(d) She drowns in the swamp.

3. Where does Ridgeway tell Cora that Caesar was killed in "Tennessee"?
(a) Georgia.
(b) Tennessee.
(c) South Carolina.
(d) North Carolina.

4. When did the runaway escape, according to the reward poster that opens "Tennessee"?
(a) February 6.
(b) June 2.
(c) July 5.
(d) January 12.

5. Where is Cora's schoolteacher from in "Indiana"?
(a) New Jersey.
(b) Massachusetts.
(c) New York.
(d) Delaware.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who takes Cora on a buggy ride to an abandoned Underground Railroad station in "Indiana"?

2. In "Mabel," the narrator says, "The first and last things she gave to her daughter were" what?

3. How old was Mabel when Grayson arrived at the plantation?

4. What was the name of Martin's father?

5. How many men, women, and children does the narrator claim were killed in the Southampton Insurrection?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is Mabel's flight described in "Mabel"?

2. How is the night before the community meeting described in flashback in "Indiana"?

3. What happens during the ambush at Ridgeway's wagon in "Tennessee"?

4. What does Cora note about the landscape as she crosses through Tennessee?

5. What are the "close calls" that could have led to Cora's discovery in "North Carolina"?

6. What happens when Cora is discovered in the home of the Wells?

7. What is significant about the allusions to Gulliver's Travels in The Underground Railroad?

8. How are the fall festival activiities described at Valentine farm?

9. How is Valentine farm described? Where is it located?

10. How did Martin become involved with the Underground Railroad?

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