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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Mammy notate the ages of the slave children that she raises?
(a) By putting stakes in the ground.
(b) By collecting pebbles in a jar.
(c) By scratching marks on the floor.
(d) By marking notches on sticks.

2. How did Jim die after he attempted escape?
(a) He was shot.
(b) He was killed by Waller's dogs.
(c) He bled to death after castration.
(d) He was lynched.

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

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

5. What does Mammy pray for when Sarny witnesses her praying in Chapter 2?
(a) Freedom.
(b) A child.
(c) A husband.
(d) Literacy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Sarny say the master did when Alice was unwilling in the breeding shed in Chapter 4?

2. Where does Sarny say she was when she first heard about Nightjohn in Chapter 1?

3. What does the author assert about the events in the story at the opening of the novel?

4. Where are the flower beds described that Sarny tends from time to time in Chapter 1?

5. When Sarny overhears the mistress of the plantation in Chapter 2, the mistress is complaining that her husband spends too much money buying slaves. What is she concerned that she will not have enough money to purchase due to her husband's overspending?

(see the answer key)

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