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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Sarny enjoy doing every evening after the slaves eat?
(a) Drawing pictures in the sand in the chicken shed.
(b) Singing songs that she learned in church.
(c) Playing a harmonica that she found in town.
(d) Laying in bed thinking about what she's learned.

2. What word from Chapter 6 means to limp?
(a) Enchant.
(b) Scribble.
(c) Bramble.
(d) Hobble.

3. How would you describe Sarny's perception of life outside of the plantation in Chapter 2?
(a) Sarny's experiences outside the plantation have led her to desire freedom.
(b) Sarny views life outside the plantation as harsher than life within the plantation.
(c) Sarny experienced a brutal life outside the plantation when she was bought by Mr. Waller.
(d) Sarny has no knowledge of life outside of the plantation.

4. What does Mammy tell Sarny to bring to her as she makes her way to the slave quarters in the end of Chapter 5?
(a) Water to drink.
(b) Tobacco to put on her wounds.
(c) Whiskey to drink.
(d) Clothing to cover herself.

5. Where has Sarny observed people reading prior to meeting John?
(a) In town.
(b) At church.
(c) In the white house.
(d) At the slave market.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Mammy pray in the manner that she does?

2. By current estimates, approximately how many Africans were shipped across the Atlantic during the slave trade?

3. What is the last letter that John introduces Sarny to in Chapter 4?

4. What must the slaves do whenever someone is punished at the spring house?

5. Where does Waller kick Sarny when he finds her writing in Chapter 5?

(see the answer key)

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