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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. Where does Hiram find himself when he wakes and is able to move in Chapter 5?

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

3. In Chapter 11, where does Hiram remember that Maynard was when they were boys and assembled all the Tasked?

4. In Chapter 13, what does Hiram hear?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What and who rescue Hiram at the end of Chapter 11?

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

3. In Chapter 5, where does Hiram find himself after falling in the river?

4. What was Sophia's relationship with Helen in Carolina?

5. Why does Lucy follow John Parnell?

6. In Chapter 14, what does Hiram need to do for Corrine to admit him into the secrets of the Underground?

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

8. In Chapter 9, how do Hiram and Sophia spend their first night in the hands of Ryland's Hounds?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Setting in a novel is the place or places where the novel takes place. Are the settings in the novel neutral backgrounds not important to the novel or do the settings take on the role of a character? Explain.

Essay Topic 2

Plantation owners have the power of life and death over their slaves. How do plantation owners abuse the power that they have over their slaves?

Essay Topic 3

Micajah Bland dies trying to free slaves. What does his life reveal about sacrifice and putting others first?

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