This document contains a series of questions about events that occurred in chapters 107 to 119 of the novel "The Rains". The questions cover topics such as Ellen Craft getting a job and facing suspicion from white coworkers, an interfaith picnic where Ellen is noticed, William Still and Reverend Catto leaving the picnic, Ellen experiencing discrimination from a customer named Mr. Sloan, and events of a riot in Philadelphia where buildings were burned down and Reverend Catto thought of something while picking it up. The final question asks what the Philadelphia Gazette blamed for causing the riot.

1. Name: ______________________________________ Date: ___________
The Rains Pages 107 to 119
Where did Ellen Craft get a job? How did she do at this job?
Why were the white salesladies suspicious of Ellen?
Where was the interfaith picnic?
What is the plan Harriet Forten and Francis Harper talk about? Who else
is mentioned in connection with the plan?
Why did Frances Harper think Harriet Forten’s plan might not work?
Who noticed Ellen Craft at the picnic? What did she say about Ellen?
Why did William Still and Reverend Catto leave the picnic?
What did Mr. Sloan ask Ellen Craft? What happened after she answered
him?
What did Ellen do with her weeks wages? Why did she do that?

2. Why might Mr. Abrams be sympathetic to what happened to Ellen?
What did Ellen Craft see on her way home? Where did she see it?
Who is compensated for slavery ending in Jamaica? How many slaves
are freed in Jamaica?
Why was the parade attacked?
What were the latest buildings burned down?
What did Reverend Catto pick up and what did that make him think of?
What did the Philadelphia Gazette blame for the riot?