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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the slaves on Townsend Plantation fear most when they hear of the death of Henry Townsend?
(a) They will be sold and separated from their loved ones.
(b) They will be sold to less kind slave owners.
(c) They will be forced to continue working for the plantation.
(d) They will be freed and forced to leave Virginia.

2. Why does this family turn on Counsel the very next morning, after offering him shelter and food the night before?
(a) Counsel stole money from their home.
(b) Counsel was caught stealing a horse.
(c) Counsel revealed himself to be prejudice against blacks.
(d) Counsel allowed the woman of the house to seduce him.

3. What did Maude's husband, Tilmon, want to do with their slaves after the death of their third child?
(a) Buy more.
(b) Kill them.
(c) Free them.
(d) Sell them.

4. What plantation does Saskia come to live on?
(a) Robbins' Plantation.
(b) Tara.
(c) A Child's Dream.
(d) Townsend's Plantation.

5. Why does Stamford stop a couple of children from picking blueberries one late afternoon?
(a) The children might hurt themselves on the bushes.
(b) The children are sick and tired.
(c) So he can eat all the berries.
(d) A storm is coming.

Short Answer Questions

1. What profession does Saskia's husband force her into, first in Philadelphia, and later, North Carolina?

2. What does Frazier's interviewee claim made slavery okay?

3. Who is Rita?

4. Where do Augustus and Mildred stay when they are visiting their son's plantation?

5. What does Caldonia order Moses to do in the future in regard to decisions about the slaves?

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