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1. The movie begins showing Solomon Northup with his family in Saratoga Springs, NY in 1841. How does he make a living?
2. Northup is kidnapped by two strangers, who drug him and lure him away. What promise do they give him?
3. What name is Northup forced to answer to, when he becomes a slave?
4. Platt suggests how to float timber down the river for his new Louisiana master, William Ford. Ford is so pleased that he gives Platt a present. What is it?
5. Platt is sold to John Tibeats, a carpenter, and gets in a fight with him. Tibeats threatens to hang him and ties him with a rope around his neck. Platt would die, except someone saves him. Who saves him?
6. Platt is sold to the worst owner yet, a red-haired cotton grower. What is the new owner's name?
7. Epps orders Platt to play the violin for an impromptu dance. What does Epps' wife do?
8. A white man in debt, Armsby, has to pick cotton with Epps' slaves, and Platt tries to get him to do what?
9. After Patsey is raped again by Epps, what does she ask Platt to do for her, although he refuses?
10. A carpenter from Canada named Bass offers to write a letter for Platt. Does it get through?
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