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- 1. Multiple Choice
Where does the story take place?
Grand Tower, Illinois
St. Louis, Missouri
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Blackwood, New Jersy
- 2. Multiple Choice
The narrators are...
Howard and Tilly
Tilly and Cass
Tilly and Noah
- 3. Multiple Choice
What is dialect?
The way someone looks
They way someone dresses
The way someone speaks
- 4. Multiple Choice
Correct the following sentence to how we would say it: "Most boys hankered to go on the river."
Most boys were afraid of going on the river.
Most boys had a longing or desire to travel down the river.
Most boys fished in the river.
- 5. Multiple Choice
Choose 2 ways Tilly and her family lived:
They bought most of their food in the corner store.
Noah killed game for them to eat.
They picked roots and herbs from the land.
They baked bread in their oven.
- 6. Multiple Choice
Why did President Lincoln close the ports?
There were too many boats on the river.
He didn't want people to travel by boat.
He wanted to prevent the southerners from transporting cotton and weapons into the Confederacy.
He wanted to prevent slaves from traveling to the North as he could.
- 7. Multiple Choice
Who gets off the steamboat from New Orleans?
Delphine Duval
Delphine Duval and Calinda
Calinda
Noah and Delphine
- 8. Multiple Choice
What was one observation Tilly makes about Delphine as she steps off the boat?
She is very plain in her appearance.
She was wearing a fancy dress.
She was with her family.
She wasn't friendly.
- 9. Multiple Choice
What is one observation Tilly makes about Calinda.
She wore fancy clothes.
She told them why they were there.
She was darker colored and may be a slave.
She asked if they could stay at Tilly's house.
- 10. Multiple Choice
Tilly feels...
Frustrated by their new visitors.
Fascinated and curious by Delphine and Calinda.
Scared about Delphine and Calinda sleeping over.
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