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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How would you describe the treatment of the slaves on Waller's plantation?
(a) The slaves are treated compassionately.
(b) The slaves are treated like treasured valuables.
(c) The slaves are treated like kings.
(d) The slaves are treated like animals.

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

3. Why does Mammy pray in the manner that she does?
(a) She is Muslim.
(b) She is practicing witchcraft.
(c) She is worshiping African deities.
(d) Slaves are forbidden to pray.

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

5. Sarny says of Mammy in Chapter 2, "She swore they could hear like cats up to the big house..." What literary device is used in this example?
(a) Onomatopoeia.
(b) Simile.
(c) Alliteration.
(d) Allusion.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. What historical figure "owned, raised, and subsequently used" the slave that the novel is dedicated to by the author?

5. In what century was the Atlantic slave established?

(see the answer key)

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