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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 6-10.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Overall, how was Solomon likely to feel about John Tibeats?
(a) That he was actually a coward.
(b) That he made threats, but was not capable of carrying them out.
(c) That he did not know how to fight.
(d) That he should be able to handle him.

3. 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 restricted.
(b) That it was based on the honor system.
(c) That it was risky.
(d) That it was unsupervised.

4. How did Radburn treat Solomon following the beating by Burch?
(a) With a bad attitude.
(b) With mixed feelings.
(c) With understanding.
(d) With cruelty.

5. How did Ford's other slaves--Sally, Rose, Walton, and John come across to Solomon when he met them?
(a) The appeared to like to gossip.
(b) They were upset about their life with Ford.
(c) They did not complain about their life with Ford.
(d) They appeared to be religious.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Freeman's customers tend to keep in mind as they shopped around his pen?

2. Aside from providing Solomon with favorable notoriety around Bayou Bœuf, his raft-building for Ford also provided him with which of the following?

3. Which adjective pair best described Solomon, his brother, and father?

4. What was the likely reason that Tibeats went off and returned with a couple of men following his fight with Solomon?

5. How could the outcome of the talk between William Ford and John M. Tibeats with respect to the mistreatment of Solomon be described?

(see the answer key)

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