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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 1-5.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the entertainment-type acts that Merrill Brown and Abram Hamilton specialized in could account for their ability to persuade Solomon to travel with them based on a promise of high wages that unexpectedly took a turn and thrust him into the clutches of slavery instead?
(a) Causing invisible pigs to squeal.
(b) Frying pancakes in a hat.
(c) Legerdemain.
(d) Ventriloquism.

2. What circumstances allowed Solomon Northrup to be born a free man?
(a) Solomon's mother was a free woman.
(b) Solomon had been born in Canada, and his family had migrated to the United States.
(c) Solomon was born after the United States Civil War.
(d) Solomon's father was a free man.

3. If at any time during his travels with Merrill Brown and Abram Hamilton, Solomon felt any doubt about their true motive, what did he base it upon?
(a) Brown and Hamilton changed the trio's original destination.
(b) Solomon never saw the circus.
(c) Brown and Hamilton became overly anxious to get to Washington City.
(d) Brown and Hamilton traveled very slowly.

4. Why did Solomon trust Merrill Brown and Abram Hamilton when he first met them?
(a) They were violin music composers.
(b) They gave him the impression that they had his best interest in mind.
(c) They offered him an opportunity to earn high wages.
(d) They recognized his violin-playing potential.

5. What type of impression did Eliza give Solomon when she arrived in Williams' Slave Pen?
(a) The impression that she had been a slave all of her life.
(b) The impression that she had lived above the level of a slave.
(c) The impression that she was familiar with Williams' Slave Pen.
(d) The impression that she fetl out of place.

Short Answer Questions

1. Was there anything peculiar about Merrill Brown's or Abram Hamilton's behavior when the two men and Solomon were in Albany?

2. What was the purpose of having Jacob Brooks accompany Eliza to get her freedom papers?

3. Why was Clemens Ray upset as he headed south aboard the Orleans?

4. How did Merrill Brown and Abram Hamilton treat Solomon while traveling to New York?

5. How were Solomon and the other slaves treated around Goodin's Pen in Richmond, Virginia?

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