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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) Legerdemain.
(b) Frying pancakes in a hat.
(c) Ventriloquism.
(d) Causing invisible pigs to squeal.

2. 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.

3. What did Solomon learn while spending time in the yard outside Williams' Slave Pen?
(a) He learned that there were other slave pens nearby.
(b) He learned the background of the other slaves.
(c) He learned that some of the slaves were planning to escape.
(d) He learned that other slaves had escaped from that yard.

4. What could be said about the type of access that Solomon and the other slaves had with respect to the yard that surrounded Williams' Slave Pen?
(a) That it was unsupervised.
(b) That it was risky.
(c) That it was restricted.
(d) That it was based on the honor system.

5. What type of reputation did Solomon maintain while living in Saratoga Springs?
(a) Trustworthy and educated.
(b) Educated and hardworking.
(c) Clean-cut and respectable.
(d) Hardworking and respectable.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Arthur's life change when the Orleans reached the dock in New Orleans?

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

3. How did Solomon feel about the way that Merrill Brown and Abram Hamilton treated him while on the way to New York?

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

5. How were Solomon and Arthur (the slave who boards the Orleans in Norfolk) fundamentally alike?

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