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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How would you describe Sarny's perception of life outside of the plantation in Chapter 2?
(a) Sarny views life outside the plantation as harsher than life within the plantation.
(b) Sarny's experiences outside the plantation have led her to desire freedom.
(c) Sarny experienced a brutal life outside the plantation when she was bought by Mr. Waller.
(d) Sarny has no knowledge of life outside of the plantation.

3. What is foreshadowed by Sarny's story about finding the coin in the dirt in Chapter 2?
(a) Sarny's education.
(b) Sarny's marriage.
(c) Sarny's death.
(d) Sarny's eventual wealth.

4. What substance does Sarny equate the color of her skin with in Chapter 3?
(a) Molasses.
(b) Sassafras tea.
(c) Coffee.
(d) Brown sugar.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Sarny say the slaves all know not to run in Chapter 4?

2. How long does Mammy suggest that John wait before running in order to heal in Chapter 6?

3. What does Sarny make of John's departing statement in the end of Chapter 6?

4. How many letters of the alphabet has Sarny learned at the beginning of Chapter 5?

5. How far does Sarny say Alice made it before she was caught in Chapter 4?

(see the answer key)

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