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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. W. E. B. Du Bois and his contemporaries estimated that by 1865 up to what percentage of slaves attained at least a marginal degree of literacy?
(a) Up to 5%.
(b) Up to 20%.
(c) Up to 9%.
(d) Up to 50%.

2. How is the pit school lit when Sarny arrives with John in Chapter 7?
(a) By torches.
(b) By candles.
(c) By lanterns.
(d) By flashlights.

3. Mammy tells John in Chapter 6, "you are born to" what?
(a) Teach.
(b) Be free.
(c) Love.
(d) Leave.

4. What civil liberty refers to the individual right to come together and collectively express, promote, pursue, and defend ideas?
(a) Right to education.
(b) Freedom of speech.
(c) Right to a fair trial.
(d) Freedom of assembly.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Waller spend the day while Mammy is shackled to the spring house in Chapter 5?

2. Mammy says in Chapter 1 that Sarny's mother sold for the value of how many field hands?

3. What reason does John give for returning to slavery after he'd achieved freedom in Chapter 4?

4. What does John call out for from the slaves in the sleeping quarters on his first night at the plantation in Chapter 3?

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

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