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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Sarny states at the end of Chapter 2 that she knows the "people in the white house aren't richer" than whom?
(a) My father.
(b) The President.
(c) God.
(d) Mammy.

2. In Chapter 1, Sarny says that some believed she brought Nightjohn to the plantation by what manner?
(a) Train.
(b) Acting intelligent.
(c) Witchery.
(d) Begging the master.

3. In what century was the Atlantic slave established?
(a) The 15th century.
(b) The 18th century.
(c) The 16th century.
(d) The 17th century.

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

5. What does Sarny enjoy doing every evening after the slaves eat?
(a) Singing songs that she learned in church.
(b) Laying in bed thinking about what she's learned.
(c) Playing a harmonica that she found in town.
(d) Drawing pictures in the sand in the chicken shed.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old is Sarny in Chapter 1?

2. What term refers to efforts toward procuring economic and social rights, political rights or equality, often for a specifically disenfranchised group?

3. 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?

4. How does Mammy notate the ages of the slave children that she raises?

5. What does Sarny describe Mammy putting her head into in order to pray in Chapter 2?

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