Chains Chapters 1-4

Whose death is supposed to free Isabel and Ruth?

• Mr. Robert

• Miss Mary Finch

• Missus Lockton

• Pastor Weeks

Why can't Isabel prove that she and Ruth are supposed to be freed?

• She cannot read the document in which their freedom is recorded.

• Their freedom was granted in an oral response, and the person who granted it is now dead.

• The lawyer who recorded their freedom in the will has left town.

• Her mother lost the paperwork that sets them free.

How did Jenny, wife of the tavern owner, know Isabel and Ruth's mother?

• She used to own Isabel and Ruth's mother, but had to sell her when her husband's debts become too high.

• She is their aunt. She and their mother were sisters.

• She used to be an indentured servant on the plantation where Isabel and Ruth's mother was a slave.

• She was the midwife who helped Isabel's mother give birth to Ruth.

Where do the Locktons take Isabel and Ruth?

• Boston

• New York

• Rhode Island

• Chicago

How long did it take to travel from Newport to New York?

• 2 days, 2 nights

• a week

• three months

• one night

Why did Isabel think kidnapped Africans got trapped in the Americans?

• They could not drive a boat.

• They could not fly a plane.

• Momma told her that their ghosts could not move over water.

• They could not find their way home.

What does the word "wailing" mean as used at the end of Chapter 4 (IV)?

• laughing

• crying

• sleeping

• running