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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Mr. Waller's first name?
(a) Homer.
(b) Andrew.
(c) Clel.
(d) Horace.

2. What does Mammy assert that reading and writing will bring for the slaves in Chapter 4?
(a) A path to freedom.
(b) Grief.
(c) Hope.
(d) A record of history.

3. What term refers to efforts toward procuring economic and social rights, political rights or equality, often for a specifically disenfranchised group?
(a) Eclecticism.
(b) Abolition.
(c) Emancipation.
(d) Suffragism.

4. What is John's response when Sarny asks him in Chapter 3, "Why they be cutting our thumbs off if we learn to read--if that's all it is?"
(a) Cause they worried that we'll start talking like them.
(b) Cause it says so in the Bible.
(c) Cause they think we're too dumb to learn.
(d) Cause to know things, for us to know things, is bad for them.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the master do to Pawley for punishment after he was caught?

2. What is the name of the slave that raises Sarny?

3. What does John cover in his first "lesson" with Sarny in Chapter 3?

4. Sarny compares the sound of "the north" to listening to what sounds in Chapter 4?

5. What does Sarny compare the color of John's skin with in Chapter 3?

(see the answer key)

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