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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the author assert about the events in the story at the opening of the novel?
(a) The events in the story are satirical.
(b) The events in the story are loosely based on events that occurred in Cleveland, Mississippi, in 1861.
(c) The events are true except for variation in time and character identification.
(d) The events in the story are purely from the imagination of the author and not based on any historical people.

2. Why does mammy say Sarny's birth mother was sold in Chapter 1?
(a) She was a good breeder.
(b) She was a good midwife.
(c) She was a good cotton-picker.
(d) She was a good house maid.

3. "Partus sequitur ventrem" was a legal doctrine adopted widely into the laws of slavery in the American colonies. What did this law dictate?
(a) That slaves be forbidden from attending church.
(b) That escaped slaves must be returned to their master.
(c) That the child of a slave was a slave.
(d) That slaves were forbidden from reading and writing.

4. To whom does Mammy pray when Sarny witnesses her in Chapter 2?
(a) Saint Mary.
(b) Allah.
(c) The Great Buddha.
(d) Lord Jesus.

5. What does Sarny say her last name is in Chapter 1?
(a) Freeman.
(b) Smith.
(c) Waller.
(d) Thomas.

Short Answer Questions

1. Mammy says in Chapter 1 that Sarny's mother sold for the value of how many field hands?

2. What is the name of Mrs. Waller's sister?

3. How does Sarny describe Mrs. Waller's sister in Chapter 2?

4. What term refers to the movement to end slavery?

5. What has caused some of the leaves to fall off of the flowers that Sarny is tending in the flower garden in Chapter 2?

(see the answer key)

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