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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How long does Sarny say it took Waller and his dogs to catch Jim when he ran in Chapter 4?
(a) Half a day.
(b) Two days.
(c) Three days.
(d) A day and a half.

2. Mammy says in Chapter 1 that Sarny's mother sold for the value of how many field hands?
(a) 2.
(b) 3.
(c) 6.
(d) 4.

3. Where are the flower beds described that Sarny tends from time to time in Chapter 1?
(a) By the roadside under the elm tree.
(b) In the back garden of the slave quarters.
(c) In the front entrance to the slave quarters.
(d) Below the big window on the white house.

4. What is foreshadowed by Sarny's story about finding the coin in the dirt in Chapter 2?
(a) Sarny's eventual wealth.
(b) Sarny's education.
(c) Sarny's death.
(d) Sarny's marriage.

5. How does Waller punish Mammy after the slaves return from the fields in Chapter 5?
(a) He hangs her.
(b) He chops off two of her toes.
(c) He makes her pull a horse buggy.
(d) He lets the dogs attack her.

Short Answer Questions

1. What tools does Waller order one of the field hands to fetch from the blacksmith lean-to in Chapter 5?

2. What does Mammy tell Sarny to bring to her at the spring house when the master and others aren't looking in Chapter 5?

3. When John steps forward in Chapter 5, the narrator says, "Waller looked down at him the way a cat looks at a mouse caught in a corner." What literary device is used in this sentence?

4. Where does Sarny say she was when she first heard about Nightjohn in Chapter 1?

5. What does Sarny say the master did when Alice was unwilling in the breeding shed in Chapter 4?

(see the answer key)

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