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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. For whom does John Skiffington work?
(a) Henry Townsend.
(b) Sheriff Gilly Patterson.
(c) The people of Manchester County.
(d) William Robbins.

2. Who does Henry attempt to choke during a disagreement over dinner at Fern's one Sunday night?
(a) Ramsey.
(b) Louis.
(c) Moses.
(d) Calvin.

3. What is unusual about the fact that Henry Townsend owns slaves?
(a) Henry was once a slave himself.
(b) Henry is an abolitionist.
(c) Henry is the child of slaves currently owned by a neighbor.
(d) Henry was beaten by slaves.

4. Who does Caldonia believe is a better master to slaves--a white man or a black man?
(a) A white man.
(b) A white man with a black overseer.
(c) A black man with a white overseer.
(d) A black man.

5. What does Maude keep pressuring Caldonia to do in Chapter 6?
(a) Sell the plantation and the slaves.
(b) Free the slaves.
(c) Stop grieving and remarry.
(d) Stop grieving and make a decision regarding the slaves.

Short Answer Questions

1. What word does Maude use to refer to Caldonia and Calvin's slaves?

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

3. Why does Skiffington believe slavery is just and should be preserved?

4. Why do Robbins and Henry come to the sheriff's office to see Skiffington while Broussard is a prisoner there?

5. Why does Robbins chase down Philamena himself when she runs away to Richmond a second time?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is Augustus Townsend?

2. What promise does Caldonia make to the slaves after her husband's death?

3. What is Caldonia's twin brother, Calvin's, opinion on the slaves? Why?

4. What causes the feud between Harvey Travis and Clarence Wilford?

5. Why does Robbins continually raise his asking price for Henry Townsend's freedom?

6. For whom does Elias carve a doll? What is significant about this doll?

7. What is Maude Newman's opinion as to what her widowed daughter, Caldonia, should do with her slaves?

8. Why does Stamford pick blueberries for a couple of children he sees going out to pick berries in a storm?

9. What could Fern not break Henry of no matter how hard she worked at it?

10. What or who does Robbins buy from Broussard?

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