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

2. What color does Sarny describe Waller's dogs as in Chapter 4?
(a) Gray.
(b) Black.
(c) Red.
(d) Yellow.

3. What word from Chapter 5 means to faint or lose consciousness?
(a) Conjecture.
(b) Incur.
(c) Careen.
(d) Swoon.

4. Sarny compares the sound of "the north" to listening to what sounds in Chapter 4?
(a) Cars and train whistles.
(b) Birds singing or wind in the trees.
(c) Wolves and dogs howling.
(d) Distant thunder at night.

5. How long does Mammy suggest that John wait before running in order to heal in Chapter 6?
(a) A week.
(b) A year.
(c) A month.
(d) Two weeks.

Short Answer Questions

1. What word from Chapter 4 refers to a noisy or disorderly group or gathering?

2. What does Mammy respond when John flirts with her in Chapter 6?

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

5. How did Jim die after he attempted escape?

Short Essay Questions

1. What instructions does Mammy give to Sarny while she's at the spring house in Chapter 5?

2. How does Mammy respond when Sarny runs to her at the spring house in Chapter 5?

3. How has the relationship between Mammy and John evolved by Chapter 6?

4. How did Pawley die, according to the story related from Sarny in Chapter 4?

5. How does Sarny describe the circumstances of the slaves in the beginning of Chapter 5?

6. What is foreshadowed by Alice's treatment and abuse from Waller in Chapter 4?

7. What is foreshadowed in Chapter 6? What does the reader expect to happen based on John's actions?

8. What happens after Alice's whipping in Chapter 4? How are Alice's wounds treated?

9. How is Alice described in the beginning of Chapter 4? What is Sarny's relationship like with Alice?

10. How was Pawley's disappearance discovered by Waller, according to Sarny in Chapter 4? Why was Pawley off the plantation?

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