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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 16, Scenes at the Plantation | Chapter 17, The Flight.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is a muster?
(a) When a slave marries a free person.
(b) When a slaveholder beats a slave.
(c) When a slave escapes to the North.
(d) When the white folks raid the homes of the slaves and free black people.

2. Approximately how many slave children has Dr. Flint fathered?
(a) 26.
(b) 2.
(c) 0.
(d) 11.

3. Why do the slaves fear auction/hiring day?
(a) It forces people to marry.
(b) It forces the slaves to choose their owners.
(c) It tears families apart.
(d) It takes away their property.

4. How are the biracial children of slaveholders treated?
(a) They are treated the same as any other slave.
(b) The slaveholders did not father any illegitimate children.
(c) They live with their fathers.
(d) They stay with their mothers, but are granted freedom.

5. What is the main message behind Mr. Pike's sermons?
(a) To teach the slaves to obey their masters.
(b) To teach the slaves to read.
(c) To teach the slaves how to pray.
(d) To teach the slaves how to escape North.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why doesn't Linda tell her family about her hiding place?

2. How do Northerners who move South and purchase slaves tend to treat their slaves?

3. What item does the young Mrs. Flint deny an old feeble slave?

4. When Linda is sent to the Flint house she witnesses countless horrors. Why is one slave beaten within an inch of his life?

5. Whom does Linda teach to read despite the fear of being caught?

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