12 Years a Slave Chapter 6

What does Freeman have the slaves do the day before they are taken to the marketplace?

• Work in the field picking cotton

• Work in the field picking tobacco

• Clean themselves up and change clothes

What instrument does Northup play?

• piano

• picallo

• flute

• violin

What happens the next day (after they are cleaned up) when the slaves are taken to the marketplace?

• they are allowed to go back to their families

• the policemen recognize the men to be free slaves

• white men come to "inspect" potential purchases

Who buys Eliza's son, Randall?

• Burch

• a plantation owner from Baton Rouge

• Northup

• a police officer

Does Eliza and her daughter get bought with Randall?

• yes

• no

Why does Freeman threaten Eliza?

• she is crying hysterical over having to part with her son

• she was whipped at the marketplace

• her daughter was sold with Randall

• she starts to hallucinate

What happens to the remaining slaves that were not sold at market?

• they are allowed to go free

• they become ill with smallpox

• they get drunk

• they go to the circus

After 2 weeks, what happens to Eliza, Harry and Northup?

• A man named Henry Ford purchases them

• Freeman realizes they will not be purchased and allows them to go home

• Freeman puts them back on the boat to work for him

Why does Eliza break out of line?

• she realizes that she will be separated from her daughter

• she tries to run away

• her daughter faints

• she sees her son in the crowd

After Henry Ford sees Eliza's outburst he offers to purchase Emily too. (True or False)

• True

• False