Chapter Nine:

 

Questions

 

  1. Where is Grant taking Miss Emma?

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  2. Why?

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  3. How does Grant feel about this trip?

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  4. What does Miss Emma bring for Jefferson?

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  5. What instruction does Paul, the deputy, give Grant?

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  6. For what do the other prisoners ask?

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  7. Describe Jefferson’s cell in detail.

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  8. At the end of Chapter 8 Antoine tells Grant, "But it won’t matter." What are Jefferson’s first words to his aunt?

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  9. What "doesn’t matter?"

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  10. What question does Jefferson have for his aunt?

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  11. What question does he have for Grant?

 

 

Chapter Ten:

 

Questions

 

  1. Miss Emma left the cell doing what after each visit?

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  2. Chapter ten marks what visit with Jefferson?

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  3. Why is this visit different than the others?

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  4. How does Grant feel about this visit?

 

 

Quotes

 

  1. "Years ago, Professor Antoine told me that if I stayed here, they were going to break me down to the nigger I was born to be. But he didn’t tell me that my aunt would help them do it." – page 79