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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why was Jacob Brooks willing to accompany Eliza to get her freedom papers?
(a) Because he wanted to impress Mrs. Berry and her daughter.
(b) Because he wanted to help Mrs. Berry and her daughter carry out their revenge against Eliza.
(c) Because he was a gentleman and did not mind accompanying Eliza.
(d) Because he knew his way around the City, and could help Eliza find the place where freedom papers were issued with ease.

2. Which adjective pair best described Solomon, his brother, and father?
(a) Critical and respectable.
(b) Generous and hardworking.
(c) Fun-loving and fair.
(d) Hardworking and respectable.

3. Was there anything peculiar about Merrill Brown's or Abram Hamilton's behavior when the two men and Solomon were in Albany?
(a) Brown and Hamilton began talking about leaving the circus.
(b) Brown and Hamilton were not as friendly to Solomon as they had been before.
(c) Brown and Hamilton became anxious to get to the circus.
(d) Solomon noticed that Brown and Hamilton were whispering to one another most of the time.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Author Solomon Northrup write Twelve Years a Slave?

2. How did Solomon describe the interaction among Eliza, Randall, and Emily at the time that they first saw each other?

3. How did Radburn treat Solomon following the beating by Burch?

4. How did Burch react when Solomon first met him and told him that he was feeling sick?

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

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