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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. By current estimates, approximately how many Africans were shipped across the Atlantic during the slave trade?
(a) 20 million.
(b) 12 million.
(c) 5 million.
(d) 7 million.

2. 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?
(a) Dresses.
(b) A new house.
(c) Farm supplies.
(d) Livestock.

3. What does Sarny describe Mammy putting her head into in order to pray in Chapter 2?
(a) A cooking pot.
(b) A fireplace.
(c) A burlap sack.
(d) A holy veil.

4. What substance does Sarny treat the flowers with in Chapter 2?
(a) Bubblegum.
(b) Tobacco juice.
(c) Chemical pesticide.
(d) Turpentine.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Pennsylvania pass legislation to end slavery?

2. How much money does Mrs. Waller say that her husband just spent on a new hand in Chapter 2?

3. In whose memory is Nightjohn dedicated by the author in the opening pages?

4. In what year did the United States Congress pass a Slave Trade Act which prohibited the building or outfitting of ships in the U.S. for use in the slave trade?

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

(see the answer key)

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