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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Mammy tell Sarny to fetch as John is taken to the slave quarters after his punishment in Chapter 5?
(a) Boiling water.
(b) Bacon.
(c) Cornbread.
(d) Salt.

2. What is Mammy doing when Sarny runs to her as she tries to escape Waller in Chapter 5?
(a) Working in the fields.
(b) Tending the flower bed.
(c) Tending Alice's wounds.
(d) Cooking breakfast.

3. Why does Sarny say the slaves all know not to run in Chapter 4?
(a) Because there is nowhere to run to.
(b) Because nobody ever gets away.
(c) Because it is wrong.
(d) Because they love the master.

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) Whiskey to drink.
(b) Water to drink.
(c) Clothing to cover herself.
(d) Tobacco to put on her wounds.

5. What question does Sarny always ask about the letters of the alphabet when John introduces them to her?
(a) What words it makes.
(b) Where the bottom is.
(c) What it feels like.
(d) Where the top is.

6. What does Waller order the field hands to do when he is finished punishing John in Chapter 5?
(a) Get some boiled water and dip it in that.
(b) Rub salt into his wounds.
(c) Carry his body to the field and bury it.
(d) Get a rag and some grease on that.

7. How far does Sarny say Alice made it before she was caught in Chapter 4?
(a) Halfway to Pennsylvania.
(b) To the train station in town.
(c) To the door of the sleeping quarters.
(d) The other end of the cotton fields.

8. 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?
(a) Onomatopoeia.
(b) Alliteration.
(c) Biblical allusion.
(d) Simile.

9. Where on the plantation does Waller keep his dogs?
(a) In a metal pen by the cotton fields.
(b) Inside the white house.
(c) In a pit by the slave quarters.
(d) In a stone pen by the horse barn.

10. What does Master Waller do when he finds Alice after she's run in Chapter 4?
(a) He lets the dogs attack her.
(b) He shoots her.
(c) He hangs her.
(d) He hangs her on the spring house.

11. For how long does Sarny say that John is incapacitated after his punishment from Waller in the beginning of Chapter 6?
(a) 1 night.
(b) 3 nights.
(c) 1 week.
(d) 2 weeks.

12. What does John do on the first night after his punishment from Waller in Chapter 6?
(a) He cries uncontrollably.
(b) He devises a plan for the slaves to revolt.
(c) He talks to Sarny about leaving.
(d) He stares at the ceiling.

13. Who were the people that captured John after he'd fled?
(a) Cotton traders.
(b) Bear hunters.
(c) Bounty hunters.
(d) Country lawmen.

14. What does Sarny say the master did when Alice was unwilling in the breeding shed in Chapter 4?
(a) He sold her.
(b) He had her tied down and raped.
(c) He let her work in the fields.
(d) He shot her.

15. What does Mammy ask John when she sees him teaching Sarny in Chapter 6?
(a) What good will that do?
(b) Will you teach me too?
(c) Can I call the others to look?
(d) Are you addled in the brain?

Short Answer Questions

1. What does John say to Sarny before he leaves in Chapter 6?

2. What does Mammy do after John explains the reasoning behind his motives in Chapter 4?

3. How did Jim die after he attempted escape?

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

5. What does Mammy make for Alice to drink after tending her wounds in Chapter 4?

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