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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. How old is Nate this Summer?
(a) 8.
(b) 17.
(c) 10.
(d) 5.
2. What does Lizzie do in hopes of terminating her pregnancy?
(a) Falls into a ravine.
(b) Drinks a special tea.
(c) Goes horseback riding.
(d) Throws herself down a flight of stairs.
3. What does Lizzie read to the slaves at night?
(a) The Xenia Gazette.
(b) The Bible.
(c) The abolition pamphlets.
(d) Oliver Twist.
4. Drayle starts Nate working ___________________.
(a) In the fields.
(b) With the horses.
(c) On the accounts.
(d) In the house.
5. How many days does it take for Drayle, Fran and Lizzie to travel to the Tawawa resort?
(a) 12.
(b) 8.
(c) 3.
(d) 4.
Short Answer Questions
1. Drayle tells Lizzie that the Tawawa House is to be converted into ________________________.
2. What is Sweet doing when the slave women go to her cabin?
3. What is the name of the steamship on which Drayle, Philip and Lizzie travel?
4. What has Drayle not told Fran?
5. What has Drayle forbidden Lizzie to do?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does Reenie's behavior show that her life has changed dramatically for the worse in the time since she saw the other women last Summer?
2. What is the most obvious reason that Lizzie does not run away from Drayle at the end of the story?
3. Why is Drayle's decision to send Nate to school in Ohio a bittersweet one for Lizzie?
4. Why is Sweet's death so bittersweet for the women?
5. What does Fran's presence at the Tawawa House mean for Lizzie?
6. What spiritual connection does Mawu feel for Lizzie?
7. Why does Sweet's master behave so cavalierly at her death?
8. How has Lizzie romanticized her position in the Drayle household throughout the novel?
9. Why does Lizzie think that Drayle freed Philip for her sake?
10. What reasons do the other slaveholders give to Drayle for why he should free Philip?
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