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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What inspired Solomon to want to help William Ford in the transporting of lumber?
(a) His desire to show that he was capable of handling the job better than Adam Taydem.
(b) His desire to impress William Ford.
(c) His desire to show his high level of intelligence.
(d) The kind manner that William Ford treated him and the other slaves.

2. What was the likely reason that Tibeats went off and returned with a couple of men following his fight with Solomon?
(a) Tibeats had paid them to help him fight Solomon.
(b) Tibeats had a problem with his right shoulder.
(c) He was not sure that he could handle a fight against Solomon by himself.
(d) The men were known to be available at any time that Tibeats needed them.

3. Why did Tibeats not attack Ford when Ford confronted him about his mistreatment of Solomon?
(a) Because Tibeats respected Ford as a man.
(b) Because Ford was a lot older than him and he did not fight older men.
(c) Because he knew that he would get in trouble with Chapin.
(d) Because he was planning to attack Ford at a later time.

4. How did Merrill Brown and Abram Hamilton treat Solomon while traveling to New York?
(a) They treated him in a business-like manner.
(b) With kindness and respect.
(c) They treated him like a hired hand.
(d) They did not speak to him very much.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How did the slaves treat Solomon after his ordeal with Tibeats was over?

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

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

4. Why did Chapin send for Ford when he was the overseer of Ford's Plantation?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What lead Solomon to believe that he could consider Merrill Brown and Abram Hamilton to be friends of his in Chapter 2 of the book?

2. In the opening Chapter of the book, what did Solomon Northrup acknowledge as a contributing factor in his decision to write his book?

3. In Chapter 6 of the book, what did Freeman's customers do to examine his merchandise before making a purchase?

4. What prompted Solomon to want to help William Ford in terms of saving time and raising profits in Chapter 7 of the book?

5. In Chapter 1 of his book, how was Author Solomon Northrup able to depict his early years in life as normal?

6. In Chapter 2 of the book, how did Merrill Brown and Abram Hamilton persuade Solomon to travel to New York with them?

7. How did Solomon feel that the exterior of Williams' Slave Pen in Washington could be viewed in Chapter 3 of the book?

8. In Chapter 6 of the book, who suffered during the sale conducted at Freeman's Pen?

9. In Chapter 7 of the book, how was Solomon rewarded after his lumber-transporting efforts prove to be successful in getting William Ford's lumber to its destination a lot faster?

10. In Chapter 5 of the story, how could Englishman John Manning be described in relation to Solomon?

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