Samuel's Choice- Selection Test

At the beginning of the story, we learn that

• Isaac is a slave who has been purchased by a farmer in Ohio.

• Samuel has been taken from his parents to be a slave in a flour mill.

• Samuel and his parents have moved to Brooklyn.

• Samuel's aunt lives in Flushing and owns a flour mill.

As the story opens, we also learn that Brooklyn is

• a city of high-rise apartment buildings.

• the home of the Brooklyn Dodgers, a British baseball team.

• a small town with green fields, ponds, marshes, and mosquitoes.

• a small town with many poor farmers with rich slaves.

How does the great stone wheel of the flour mill run?

• It is driven by the tides flowing in and out of the creek.

• It is driven by a team of oxen.

• The slaves push it with their hands, which makes them strong.

• None of the above.

Why does Isaac van Ditmas teach Samuel how to sail the boat?

• The Ditmas's love to eat fish, and Samuel will go deep-see fishing.

• Isaac believes that slaves should be educated and then freed.

• Samuel has begged him to show him how to use the boat.

• Samuel is to row Mrs. van Ditmas and her daughters to Manhattan.

An example of Isaac's stinginess is that

• He doesn't feed his slaves.

• He send his wife and daughter to Manhattan.

• He is against the war with England.

• He runs away when the fighting gets near his house.

An example of Samuel's goodness is that he

• offers a drink to a thirsty soldier.

• rescues soldiers who are stranded in the water.

• carries the rope across from Brooklyn to Manhattan.

• all of the above.

Samuel's Choice is

• a true story.

• a type of short story called historical fiction.

• a poem.

• a play.

A story should always

• be funny and make you laugh

• be sad and make you cry.

• have characters, setting, a challenge for the mail character, a turning point, and a resolution.

• have character who are good people.

The title of the story has to do with

• a turning point in Samuel's life.

• Samuel's decision not to eat raw flour.

• Samuel's learning how to row the boat.

• Samuel's wanting to live in Manhattan rather than Brooklyn.

Samuel's Choice reminds us that

• animals in the zoo hate being in cages.

• the Americans won the Revolutionary War.

• four mills used to run without electricity.

• when a person is able to choose he or she if free.