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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. In Chapter 14, what season is it when Hiram finishes studying a packet of documents Corrine gives him?
(a) Summer.
(b) Spring.
(c) Winter.
(d) Fall.

2. In Chapter 4, what was Sophia doing when Hiram passed her doorway?
(a) Sewing.
(b) Crocheting.
(c) Knitting.
(d) Mending.

3. In Chapter 13, what does Hiram hear?
(a) A bell.
(b) Music.
(c) Bird song.
(d) Voice downstairs.

4. In Chapter 13, how many blacks are in the dining room when Hiram arrives?
(a) 8.
(b) 3.
(c) 2.
(d) 6.

5. What was the name of Maynard's horse that won in Chapter 4?
(a) Black Dusk.
(b) Shadow.
(c) White Socks.
(d) Diamond.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 14, what instrument does the man play that Hawkins is to get out?

2. What piece of furniture does Hiram try to work on in Chapter 6?

3. For whom does Hiram create a day pass and freedom papers in Chapter 13?

4. In Chapter 10, what family members of the man who shares Hiram's cell were taken?

5. Where would flesh-traders come to see Hiram and the other slaves in Chapter 10?

Short Essay Questions

1. What advice did Thena give Hiram when he was sent to live in the big house?

2. What did Howell Walker tell Hiram to do at the end of Chapter 3?

3. What are Hiram's days like in Chapter 10?

4. What does Hiram realize that his father believes about what happened when he and Maynard fell in the river?

5. In Chapter 6, where does Hiram find something to do and what does he do?

6. In Chapter 13, what is the sub-basement like where Hiram studies?

7. In Chapter 12, what does Hiram see when he wakes?

8. In Chapter 15, how does Hiram know that he has used Conduction?

9. In Chapter 3, what chores did Hiram begin doing when he went to the big house?

10. In Chapter 1, what happens to Hiram and Maynard when the bridge breaks and they fall into the river?

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