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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Mammy ask John when she sees him teaching Sarny in Chapter 6?
(a) Are you addled in the brain?
(b) Can I call the others to look?
(c) Will you teach me too?
(d) What good will that do?

2. What does John call out for from the slaves in the sleeping quarters on his first night at the plantation in Chapter 3?
(a) Whiskey.
(b) Tobacco.
(c) Water.
(d) Extra food.

3. What major theme of the novel emerges in Chapter 3?
(a) The importance of literacy.
(b) Political corruption.
(c) Longing and forbidden love.
(d) The pain of betrayal.

4. What has caused some of the leaves to fall off of the flowers that Sarny is tending in the flower garden in Chapter 2?
(a) Over-watering.
(b) Under-watering.
(c) Chemical pesticides.
(d) Little green bugs.

5. What is John's response when Sarny asks him in Chapter 3, "Why they be cutting our thumbs off if we learn to read--if that's all it is?"
(a) Cause it says so in the Bible.
(b) Cause they worried that we'll start talking like them.
(c) Cause they think we're too dumb to learn.
(d) Cause to know things, for us to know things, is bad for them.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mammy do when she first sees John teaching Sarny the letters of the alphabet in Chapter 4?

2. What is Mrs. Waller's first name?

3. What had Mammy done when Sarny copied the letters from the feed sack in the dirt when she was younger?

4. John tells Mammy in Chapter 6, "I don't get smarter. Just" what?

5. What were the "funny lines" that Sarny recalls seeing on the side of a feed sack in Chapter 3?

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