Flashcards About The Invention of Wings
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What is Hetty Grinke's nickname?
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Handful
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At what craft is Hetty's mother particularly skilled?
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Sewing, curtains, petticoats, quilts, etc.
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For her ? birthday, Sarah gets her own bedroom
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eleventh
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Seeing this event causes Sarah to run away from home to not speak for a week:
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Sarah witnesses a slave being whipped The slave's dress is yellow but the back begins to become red from the blood The blood looks like flower petals, roses
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What gift does Sarah receive for her birthday?
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Handful as her personal slave/maid
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How does Sarah react to this gift?
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Sarah said she could not accept She felt she did not need a slave of her own
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What does Sarah do during the night, which she is normally banned from doing?
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Sarah goes to the library
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What does Sarah sign and leave for her father to see?
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A legal manumission document hoping to set Hetty free
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How is Hetty punished for causing the smoke in Sarah's room and the potential for a fire?
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Missus took a gold-tip cane and hit Hetty on the back of her head
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Who tore up the document that Sarah wrote which freed Hetty?
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her father
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What does Sarah do to alert Hetty that Missus is coming?
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Sarah would ring her bell as a warning
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What is the name of Hetty's mother?
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Charlotte
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What promise does Sarah make to Hetty's mother?
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That she will help her anyway she can to get Hetty free
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What does Hetty steal from Sarah's room?
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A spool of scarlet thread
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What does Mauma steal?
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Emerald silk
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What does Sarah teach the slave children to do?
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The alphabet
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How is Mauma punished?
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One-legged punishment wind a leather tie around the ankle, pulled that foot behind and hitched tie around the neck, if the ankle drops, the tie chokes the neck
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How does Sarah react when she discovers how Charlotte was punished?
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She gathered curatives and headed for Charlotte She remembered Rosetta's punishment Furious at her mother
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Who was Mauma's daddy?
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A white man named John Paul
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Who was Handful's father?
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A field slave named Shanney
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What does Sarah begin teaching Hetty?
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How to read
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What does Sarah want to be when she grows up?
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A lawyer
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Mauma is allowed to do all the sewing in her room after she comes down with this:
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A limp
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What happens to Mauma's room?
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It fills with water and turns into mud due to the hurricane
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How does father punish Sarah when he learns that Sarah taught Hetty to read and write?
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She is not allowed to enter the library ever again She may not use any books in the library She may not use any books anywhere except those for her studies She may not study any subjects other those approved by her tutor No more Latin lessons with her brother (not write, speak or compose it)
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How is Hetty punished?
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One lash of a strap
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How does Mauma take advantage of Hetty's ability to write?
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She has Hetty write a note saying she can travel
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What does Mauma get in order to illegally hire herself out for more work?
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A domestic servant badge (fake)
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What request does Sarah make to her mother when her mother is giving birth?
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She wishes to be the new baby's godmother
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Hetty want to make this:
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A spirit tree
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At what age does Sarah enter society and start looking for a husband
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16
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What is the name of Sarah's younger sister?
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Angelina, aka: Nina
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What does Sarah teach her sister, "From the days she was in the crib?"
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taught her he about the evils of slavery
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How does Sarah meet Mr. Burke
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Sarah plowed headlong into a slave who spilled drinks on Mr. Burke's trousers They were taken to be dried off and they introduced themselves
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What is the name of the new footman the Grimke's hire when Snow dies?
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Goodis
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What is special about the Grimke's bathtub
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You sat in it rather than stand over it and you were completely immersed with water, copper
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What type of shop does John's father own?
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A silvershop
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What does Burke want from Sarah when they part?
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A lock of her hair
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How much money were Hetty and her mother, Charlotte, worth?
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Charlotte...$550 Handful...$500
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What does Sarah catch Hetty doing?
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Taking a bath in the family bathtub
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What is the name of Mauma's new boyfriend?
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Denmark Vesey
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What does Burke ask Sarah in the letter he gives her?
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If he may be her fiance
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What trouble is Sarah's father facing?
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Impeachment charges to remove him from court
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At the end of the chapter, the author indicates this about Mauma:
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Mauma is pregnant
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What does Sarah discover about Burke?
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Burke has other fiances
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Why does Sarah get angry at Thomas?
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Thomas called off the engagement on her behalf
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What did Handful do with the button after Sarah tossed it out?
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Handful wore it in her pouch almost everyday since She gave it back to Sarah after her failed engagement
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Why is Charlotte arrested?
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Charlotte wouldn't move out of the way for a white woman Charlotte then swung her basket, hitting the woman, causing her to fall
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What happened to Mauma after she was arrested?
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She escaped
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What vow does Sarah make to herself concerning marriage?
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Sarah would not marry She would give herself to God
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What does Handful find in the trunk?
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Mauma's quilt squares
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Sarah cannot easily sell Hetty. To whom does Sarah give Hetty?
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Missus
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Handful decides to go to this place so that she can see Denmark Vessey and possibly hear about what happened to Mauma?
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African Methodist Episcopal Church
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What does nina refuse, which makes her mother furious?
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Confirmation
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Where are the members of the African church taken after they are charged with disorderly conduct?
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The Guard House
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Where is Hetty sent because her owner won't pay the fine?
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The Work House
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What part of Handful's body did she injure on the treadmill?
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her foot
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What does Handful say when Sarah goes to see her?
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Go Away
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Where is Sarah supposed to accompany her father?
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Philadelphia
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What does Goodis do for Handful?
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He took her cane, which used to be Mauma's, and he whittled it to Handful's size and carved the handle into a rabbit head
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What does the # 1884 stand for?
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The numbers on Denmark Vessey's lottery card which bought his freedom
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What does Dr. Physick prescribe to help Sarah's father feel better?
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Sea air
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Father admits to Sarah that he has come to Long Beach to do this?
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die
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How did Susan help Mauma?
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Susan took Mauma's red scarf and gave her a brown one because the guards would be looking for a woman with a red one
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What happened to Mauma?
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A slave poacher stole her and sold her off somewhere
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What is the name of the Quaker Sarah meets aboard the ship?
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Israel Morris
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What did Master Grimke say in his will about the slaves?
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Mrs. Grimke will choose any six slaves she wants and the rest she will sell or disperse amongst the family
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Why does Sarah become furious with her mother?
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Her mother stole her letters to Israel
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What "grave and sorrowful" news does Israel Morris give to Sarah in his letter?
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his wife passed away
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What does the "inner voice"tell Sarah to do?
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Go north
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What did father leave for Sarah that will help her with this?
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$10,000
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Mother makes up this reason to explain Sarah's reason for going North:
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for fear Sarah has consumption, cough
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What is Mother's problem with Sarah going North?
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Israel is a widower which means that Sarah living with him is scandalous. She also does not like that Sarah will be a tutor
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What does Becky give to Sarah, which later gets Sarah in trouble with Catherine?
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her mother's necklace
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What does Denmark keep in the Book?
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draftees (names of slaves willing to fight for freedom)
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Where does Hetty hide the list?
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inside a quilt
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What happens to Henrietta when Handful shows her her injured foot?
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she fainted
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What does Missus do to punish slaves?
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strikes them with a cane
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Why does catherine say Sarah must move out?
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because she is an unmarried woman living in the house of a widower (must remain in good taste)
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What is the name of the Quaker woman who volunteers to let Sarah stay with her?
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Lucretia Mott
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What does Handful volunteer to steal for Denmark?
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A bullet mold
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What does Sarah decide to do after receiving nina's letter?
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Return home
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Where does Handful go to steal the bullet mold?
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City Arsenal
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What religious group does Sarah officially join before leaving Philadelphia?
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Quaker
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What is the rumor going around the city?
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slave revolt
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What is the punishment for any black person who mourns Denmark Vessey in public?
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They will be arrested and whipped
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Who returns?
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Mauma
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Who comes with this person?
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her daughter, Sky
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Lucretia Mott encourages Sarah that she can become a:
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Quaker minister
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What does Missus plan to do with Sky?
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sell her in the spring
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Nina has a crush on this man:
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Reverend William McDowell
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Why is Sarah conflicted when Israel asks her to be his wife?
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She wants to continue with the ministry and she does not believe she can be like Rebecca
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Where did Mauma hide the money they'd been saving to buy their freedom?
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In the red and black quilt (first one Handful made)
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What was Sarah's answer to Israel's proposal?
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no
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What does nina decide to do when Rev. McDowell refuses to speak publicly against slavery?
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to leave the Church she wants to be a Quaker
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What is keeping Sarah from becoming a minister?
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her nervousness about speaking
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Who comes to live at the plantation?
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Mary and nine slaves
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Who dies?
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Mauma
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What rebellious act do Sarah and Nina do at the Church?
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They sat on the Negro pew
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how does Sarah Mapps react?
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She says she and her mother are fully part of it
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What does Nina do that gets her in trouble?
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Nina wrote a letter to William Lloyd Garrison and it was published in The Liberator
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What does Sky sprinkle on Mauma's grave to help send her spirit to Africa?
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rice
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Where do Sarah and Nina go to live when they are expelled from Catherine's house?
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Sarah Mapps home
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What is Sky's punishment for singing the song about Mary?
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Iron muzzle latched on her mouth
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What does Handful trade for Sarah's pamphlet?
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liquor
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What will happen to Sarah and Nina if they are seen in Charleston again?
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They will be arrested and imprisoned until they can be sent North
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Who is Nina's new love interest?
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Theodore Weld
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With whom do Sarah and Nina stay when they aren't on their lecturing tour.
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Mrs. Whittier
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What issue do Elizor Wright, Theodore Weld, and John Greenleaf, Whittier not want Sarah and Nina to talk about?
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womens rights/reform
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What causes Handful to want to run away?
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Little missus said she would burn Mauma's quilt
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Who does nina marry?
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Theodore
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What will happen to sarah when nina gets married?
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live with nina and Theo on a farm
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What does Handful steal to help her and Sky escape?
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Missus mourning dresses
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What does Mother say she'll do concerning Hetty and Sky?
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She will free them both upon her death
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How do Sky and Handful escape the plantation?
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put on the mourning dresses and travel with Sarah
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What do they use to disguise their skin color?
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flour
