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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What term refers to the movement to end slavery?
(a) Suffragism.
(b) Calvinism.
(c) Abolitionism.
(d) Humanism.

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

3. Mammy says in Chapter 1 that Sarny's mother sold for the value of how many field hands?
(a) 4.
(b) 6.
(c) 2.
(d) 3.

4. How old is Sarny in Chapter 1?
(a) 15.
(b) 8.
(c) 12.
(d) 10.

5. 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?
(a) 1739.
(b) 1826.
(c) 1865.
(d) 1794.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old was Sarny when her birth mother was sold?

2. In what century was the Atlantic slave established?

3. Why does Mammy pray in the manner that she does?

4. Why does mammy say Sarny's birth mother was sold in Chapter 1?

5. What does Sarny enjoy doing every evening after the slaves eat?

(see the answer key)

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