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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Bankhead looking for when Harriet comes across him in the house?
(a) Money.
(b) A midnight snack.
(c) A gun.
(d) Brandy.

2. What is Harriet afraid Beverly may never do?
(a) Take his freedom and leave the plantation.
(b) Tell Jefferson he knows who his father is.
(c) Get married.
(d) Grow old.

3. Why does Bankhead go over by the fireplace after he attacks Harriet?
(a) To get a poker.
(b) To stoke the fire.
(c) To hide.
(d) Because he's suddenly very cold.

4. What does the homemade concoction that Sally gives Harriet to cure her ills cause Harriet to do in The Middle of May 1820?
(a) Giggle uncontrollably.
(b) Become drunk.
(c) Vomit.
(d) Fall asleep.

5. After the attack, what does Jefferson do to Bankhead?
(a) Has him arrested.
(b) Banishes him from Monticello for the summer.
(c) Hits him.
(d) Nothing.

6. Why does Jefferson give Harriet a journal?
(a) He doesn't give her a journal.
(b) So he can include information about her in his autobiography.
(c) So she can improve her writing.
(d) Because it's her birthday.

7. Living as a white woman, Harriet would have the protection of what?
(a) God.
(b) Money.
(c) The law and her prospective husband.
(d) Her social circle.

8. Though he wants to marry Harriet, what would Thruston rather see her do?
(a) Marry Davie.
(b) Remain single.
(c) Take her freedom.
(d) Run away.

9. When Harriet tells Jefferson about the snow in December 1819, what does Jefferson say he will do?
(a) Buy her a new coat.
(b) Ask Burwell to shovel.
(c) Put it in his Farm Book.
(d) Go for a walk with her.

10. What one thing does Harriet want to know about Jefferson?
(a) If he will sell his slaves.
(b) If Jefferson is really keeping a Farm Book.
(c) If he is her father.
(d) If he will free his slaves.

11. Who are the only people that speak about Tom now?
(a) The people on Mulberry Row.
(b) Sally and Jefferson.
(c) Jefferson's family.
(d) Harriet and Beverly.

12. Who brings up the idea that Harriet should pass as white?
(a) Randolph.
(b) Jefferson.
(c) Thruston.
(d) Mammy Ursula.

13. In April 1820, That Same Day, what does Mammy Ursula ask Harriet to have Beverly do?
(a) Get married to a slave and remain on the plantation.
(b) Run away.
(c) Come and see her.
(d) Confront Jefferson.

14. In April 1820, how does Harriet act when Randolph asks her to sit and talk to him?
(a) She refuses.
(b) She is grateful for the chance to get off her feet.
(c) She doesn't know what to say.
(d) She is frightened.

15. Whose advice does Martha tell Harriet to follow?
(a) Jefferson's.
(b) Martha's.
(c) Sally's.
(d) Thruston's.

Short Answer Questions

1. In The Third Week of May 1820, what is it that Sally wants her children to take every one of that they can?

2. What does Martha tell Harriet she acts like even if she isn't one?

3. At the end of their discussion in April 1820, what does Harriet think of what Randolph had to say?

4. What causes Martha to curb her disapproval of Harriet?

5. What does Harriet make Sally promise regarding the attack by Bankhead?

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