1.What does the narrator first say about her birth?

2.Except for her brother Peter, why did the narrator never know the other children in her family?

3.Who spoke Dutch in Ulster County, New York?

4.What does Mama tell Sojourner and Pete to do if they ever fall into trouble?

5.What does Mama say about the stars?

6.How does Mama explain the meaning of the song "African Lullaby"?

7.What happens to Master Hardenburgh?

8.What is the final selling bid on the sheep and Sojourner?

9.How does language cause a problem between Sojourner and Mr. and Mrs. Neely?

10.What does Mr. Neely do to Sojourner one day?

11.What does Mr. Neely realize about Sojourner when beating her does not change her behavior?

12.Why does Mrs. Neely want to go home?

13.How does Sojourner describe her time with Master Scriver?

14.How does Sojourner become Belle Dumont?

15.How does Sissy describe Pinxter to Sojourner?

16.What is the purpose of the rising African drumbeat to which Bob Catlin dances during Pinxter?

17.What does Sojourner say to Bob about "fitting in"?

18.Who warns Sojourner about Mr. Catlin?

19.Why doesn't Bob dance at other Pinxters?

20.Why are Sojourner's parents set free?

21.What state law does Dumont mention to Sojourner?

22.What proposition does Dumont make to Sojourner?

23.What does Sojourner tell her son Pete about a house?

24.What does Sissy think of Mr. Dumont's promise to Sojourner?

25.What do folks tell Sojourner about Bob?

26.What does Sojourner do before the year is up?

27.Where does Sojourner stop first after she walks away from the Dumonts' place?

28.When Dumont tries to take Sojourner back home, what does Isaac Van Wagener do?

29.What does Sojourner learn from the Van Wageners?

30.What happens on July 4, 1827?

31.What does Sojourner learn from an old woman about Pete's whereabouts?

32.According to Sojourner, what does being sent to the South mean for Pete?

33.What reason does Sojourner give for saying she will do more than cry to have her child back again?

34.Why does Dumont tell Sojourner she is never to tell anyone he sent her to see Squire Chip?

35.How does Chip explain the writ to Sojourner?

36.How does Gedney react when Sojourner says he'll have to spend months in jail if he doesn't get her son back?

37.What does Chip finally admit he can do?

38.How does Sojourner's son Pete react when Sojourner sees him in court?

39.What is seen on Pete's body after he removes his shirt?

40.How does Chip explain Pete's lying?

41.Who had beaten Pete?

42.What two other court cases does Sojourner win?

43.By what names had Sojourner been known?

44.After she moves to New York City, what kind of work does Sojourner find?

45.Why does Pete sign aboard a whaling boat?

46.Who helps Sojourner answer her son's letters?

47.Does Sojourner ever see her son again?

48.What happens when Sojourner refuses to allow an old man to clear snow off the steps for money?

49.What does Sojourner give to Mrs. Whiting?

50.How does Sojourner come to have her own name?

51.When Sojourner questions God, how does God respond?

52.What does the second reverend maintain?