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Questions 1-5 of 25:

1.

Why does Josephine find the help she had hoped for at the Rounds farm when she tries to escape the first time? (from Part Two: Lina, Josephine, Dorothea; Chapters 1-3)

The Rounds family is afraid their neighbors are going to tell the authorities.

Josephine is too young to safely make the trip.

Mr. Rounds and Dorothea know Robert Bell will kill them if they help her.

Josephine is pregnant and Mr. Rounds feels it is too dangerous to transport her.

2.

What is the basis for the lawsuit Lina is working on for Ron Dresser? (from Part One: Josephine, Lina; Chapters 3 and 4)

That companies benefitted from slave labor and should pay reparations.

That companies kept slaves working long past the Civil War and owed them back wages.

That blacks should have been paid when they were taken from Africa.

That slavery was legal at one point when it should not have been.

3.

According to Caleb's letter, how did Dorothea die? (from “Part Three: Lina, Caleb, Josephine; Chapters 1 and 2)

She died during childbirth.

She had a tumor.

She died of old age at 76.

She was killed during a Civil War battle that came close to their farm.

4.

What is the subject of Oscar's most recent art project? (from Part One: Josephine, Lina; Chapters 1 and 2)

Lina.

Slavery

Lina's mother, Grace.

Women in corporate America.

5.

What information does Miss Lu reveal just before Josephine leaves the house in "Part Two: Lina, Josephine, Dorothea; Chapters 4-6"? (from Part Two: Lina, Josephine, Dorothea; Chapters 4-6)

That Josephine is Mister Robert's biological daughter.

That Josephine had given birth to twins, and that both died.

That Josephine's mother is alive at the Stanmore plantation.

That Josephine's son is alive at the Stanmore plantation.

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