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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 was an important factor to the slaves at the time that they were sold?
(a) That they be sold for the highest price possible.
(b) That their physical strengths be accurately given to the buyers.
(c) That feuding slave family members be sold to different dealers.
(d) That slave family members be sold and kept together.

2. What separated William Ford from other slave owners in Bayou Bœuf?
(a) He taught each one of them a different trade.
(b) He taught his slaves about God and provided them with Bibles.
(c) Once he bought slaves, he never sold them.
(d) He did not keep slaves whom he bought for more than three months.

3. What did the fact that William Ford was willing to buy Eliza's child, Emily, from slave dealer Theophilus Freeman say about Ford?
(a) That he knew that he could keep her around for many years to come.
(b) That he had another child slave at his plantation who could play with Emily.
(c) That he could get a good price for Emily.
(d) That he believed in keeping slave family members together.

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

5. What was the purpose of having Jacob Brooks accompany Eliza to get her freedom papers?
(a) To mislead her into a life of slavery.
(b) To vouch for her qualifications so that she would be issued freedom papers.
(c) To help her find the place where freedom papers were issued since she did not know how to get there.
(d) To make sure that the proper freedom papers were issued to her.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who suffered the worst loss of all during the slave sale at Freeman's?

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

3. Aside from Bibles, what did William Ford provide his slaves that other slave owners seemed to overlook or not consider to provide them with at all?

4. In general, how did Solomon view slave owner William Ford's position with regard to his views on religion and slavery?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What was Solomon's first impression of Eliza in Chapter 3 of the book?

2. How did Solomon improve his life in Chapter 1 of the book?

3. As Chapter 2 ends, and Chapter 3 begins, how did Solomon discover that he was being held in slavery?

4. In Chapter 6 of the book, how did slave dealer Theoplilus Freeman treat the slaves whom he owned?

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

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

7. How was the slaves' departure from Washington City carried out in Chapter 4 of the book?

8. 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?

9. In Chapter 7 of the book, what set William Ford apart from the way that other slave owners treated their slaves?

10. In Chapter 8 of the book, how did Mr. Chapin protect Solomon from being hurt or murdered by John Tibeats?

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