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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What term refers to the movement to end slavery?
(a) Humanism.
(b) Abolitionism.
(c) Suffragism.
(d) Calvinism.
2. What did Sarny do with the coin that she found after showing it to Mammy?
(a) She hid it in the dirt.
(b) She gave it to John.
(c) She gave it to Mr. Waller.
(d) She swallowed it.
3. What kind of flowers is Sarny working on in the flower bed in the beginning of Chapter 2?
(a) Pansies.
(b) Roses.
(c) Crocuses.
(d) Daffodils.
4. What word from Chapter 3 refers to a gourd used for eating or drinking?
(a) Calabash.
(b) Proscenium.
(c) Visor.
(d) Marigold.
5. What does Sarny enjoy doing every evening after the slaves eat?
(a) Singing songs that she learned in church.
(b) Laying in bed thinking about what she's learned.
(c) Playing a harmonica that she found in town.
(d) Drawing pictures in the sand in the chicken shed.
Short Answer Questions
1. Where does Sarny say she was when she first heard about Nightjohn in Chapter 1?
2. What does Sarny recall Mammy telling her to do with the coin that she found in the dirt in Chapter 2?
3. What does Mammy pray for when Sarny witnesses her praying in Chapter 2?
4. What is the name of the slave that raises Sarny?
5. What had Mammy done when Sarny copied the letters from the feed sack in the dirt when she was younger?
Short Essay Questions
1. How would you describe the dialect and language style established in Chapter 1?
2. What is foreshadowed by Sarny's description of the penny that she once found in Chapter 2?
3. How does Mr. Waller behave toward John as he brings him into the plantation in Chapter 3?
4. What does Mammy measure on the sticks that she keeps for each child on the plantation? Why?
5. What is the significance of John's scars when he first appears? Why do you think Waller chose John despite those scars?
6. What does Sarny overhear from the white house while she works in Chapter 2?
7. What was Mammy's response when she discovered Sarny copying the symbols from the grain sack into the dirt when she was a child? Why did she react in this manner?
8. How is Sarny's character introduced to the reader in Chapter 1? What does Sarny say brought Nightjohn to her?
9. What intrigues and inspires Sarny to want to learn to read and write? What risks does she take in doing so?
10. Why were slaves forbidden education historically? How is this depicted in the novel?
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