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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 is already at the well when Hiram comes on the day he plans to run in Chapter 8?
2. In Chapter 13, how many blacks are in the dining room when Hiram arrives?
3. At the end of Chapter 6, what do Sophia and Hiram drink?
4. In Chapter 9, where do Ryland's Hounds chain Hiram and Sophia?
5. Where would flesh-traders come to see Hiram and the other slaves in Chapter 10?
Short Essay Questions
1. In Chapter 3, what chores did Hiram begin doing when he went to the big house?
2. What and who rescue Hiram at the end of Chapter 11?
3. Why does Lucy follow John Parnell?
4. What does Corrine tell Hiram about where he is and why he must trust her and the others in Chapter 12?
5. What does Hiram realize that his father believes about what happened when he and Maynard fell in the river?
6. What advice did Thena give Hiram when he was sent to live in the big house?
7. What does Hiram see in Chapter 1 when he is driving across a stone bridge?
8. Where did Sophia live before Lockless and what did she have there?
9. In Chapter 7, what becomes Hiram's job and why?
10. In Chapter 13, what is the sub-basement like where Hiram studies?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Most of the characters in the novel are in bondage. What are the lives of slaves like? In what way is the treatment they receive inhumane?
Essay Topic 2
Corrine decides that Georgie Parks must be destroyed. How do Corrine and the others plan to destroy Georgie? Why does Hiram protest? How does Corrine convince him to go along with the plan? What does the author communicate about the morality of revenge?
Essay Topic 3
Hiram is a different person after he runs from freedom. In what way does Hiram experience a metamorphosis in his life? In what way does he become a new man?
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