Twelve Years a Slave Quiz

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Questions 1-5 of 25:

1.

Why does Author Solomon Northrup write Twelve Years a Slave? (from Chapters 1-5)

Because he has always kept a journal about events in his life.

Because there is widespread interest in the 12 years that he has spent in slavery.

Because no one has written a book on a free man subjected to slavery.

Because he wants to become rich and famous.

2.

Overall, Epps comes across as being what type of person? (from Chapters 16-20)

Selfish and cruel.

Quiet and reserved.

Temperamental and boastful.

Selfish but polite.

3.

Who presides over the higher court that Solomon refers to when Burch is cleared of charges for having wrongfully enslaved him? (from Chapters 21-22)

Judge Turner.

Judge Darwin.

God.

Overseer Chapin.

4.

Who suffers the worst loss of all during the slave sale at Freeman's? (from Chapters 6-10)

Eliza.

The planter from Natchez.

Theophilus Freeman.

The gentleman looking for a coachman.

5.

How do people in the South make money at the time that Solomon is sold to Edwin Epps? (from Chapters 11-15)

By catching possums.

By raising pigs.

By turning in slave dealers.

By catching runaway slaves.

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