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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Mr. Leroy wearing in chapter 19?

2. Who does Mr. Leroy think Elijah is as he lies in the street dying in chapter 20?

3. How long does it take Elijah to rewrite the statement for Mrs. Holton in chapter 15?

4. What is Elijah helping Mr. Leroy to make for Mrs. Holton in chapter 15?

5. Who was the Liberty Bell presented to as engraved on the bell?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Elijah tell the villagers in chapter 20 that he has an aunt waiting for him close by?

2. What does Elijah tell Mr. Leroy about the preacher in chapter 16 that later leaves him feeling guilty and afraid for his life in chapter 17?

3. In chapter 14, where does the community of Buxton spend their Sunday afternoon?

4. What does Emma give to the Taylor's older daughter? For what reason?

5. What is significant about Emma Collins?

6. Why does Elijah's father not trust the preacher to take Mr. Leroy's money and arrange for the purchase of his family?

7. Who reads the letter to Mrs. Holton in chapter 13? For what reason?

8. Whom do the Duncan sisters believe Mrs. Taylor is? For what reason?

9. To where did Elijah's mother travel with her white master as a child when she was a slave?

10. What happened to Mr. Highgate? For what reason? How did he get back to Buxton?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss Elijah's parents. How long have they lived in Buxton? How old was Elijah's mother when she arrived in Buxton? Why did she go to Buxton? Why has she not seen her mother in a long time? Why do people come to Elijah's father to seek advice? What does this say about Elijah's parents? What kind of parents are these people? Have they raised Elijah well? How does the reader know this?

Essay Topic 2

How does Elijah catch up to the preacher? Where does he find him? What has happened to the preacher? How does Elijah react to this? What does Elijah think the figures near the wall are when he first sees them? What danger do these figures pose for Elijah? What might have happened to Elijah in the stable? What does happen? How does Elijah return to Buxton? What does this say about the overall moral of the story?

Essay Topic 3

Compare and contrast the preacher to the white slave holder who informs Mrs. Holton of her husband's death. In this comparison list the cruelties each has committed and how they compare to one another, how they impact the people of Buxton and others, and the ways in which they are different. Discuss as well reasons why the author might have felt the need to offers these two representations of such cruelties.

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