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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. How do men in the Klan dress?

2. How old is Muhammad when he is captured?

3. Who owns Neela?

4. Where is Muhammad sold?

5. Where are slaves usually held on slave ships?

Short Essay Questions

1. What advice does Richard give to Elijah before he goes looking for David, and why?

2. Why does Lizzy choose to leave Live Oaks?

3. What does Julia tell Lizzy the difference between white people and black people is?

4. How does Foster die?

5. What does Master Lewis tell Mister Joe to do with Lem?

6. Why does Elijah refuse to split the reward money with Sheriff Glover?

7. How did Lizzy first come to know Moses and Saran?

8. What makes it hard for many slave descendants to track their family history?

9. Why does Sheriff Glover pull a gun on Elijah?

10. What is the deepest feeling felt by Muhammad on the ship, and why?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What role does symbolism play in the story and where does it appear? How is the plot altered by the presence of these symbols?

Essay Topic 2

What are some of the key examples of gratitude in this book, and how do these instances affect that characters involved in those scenes?

Essay Topic 3

This book takes place in a few different settings. Describe some of these settings and explain how they affect the course of the plot. Why might Walter Dean Myers have chosen these particular places for this plot to take place?

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