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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What kind of work does Sarny say she is not yet old enough to do on the plantation in Chapter 1?
(a) Yard work.
(b) Field work.
(c) Gathering eggs.
(d) Helping with the young ones.

2. Why does mammy say Sarny's birth mother was sold in Chapter 1?
(a) She was a good midwife.
(b) She was a good breeder.
(c) She was a good house maid.
(d) She was a good cotton-picker.

3. What does Waller order the field hands to do when he is finished punishing John in Chapter 5?
(a) Carry his body to the field and bury it.
(b) Get a rag and some grease on that.
(c) Rub salt into his wounds.
(d) Get some boiled water and dip it in that.

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

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) 1794.
(d) 1865.

Short Answer Questions

1. Mammy tells John in Chapter 6, "you are born to" what?

2. In Chapter 1, Sarny says that some believed she brought Nightjohn to the plantation by what manner?

3. What food item does Sarny bring to Mammy while she's strung up at the spring house in Chapter 5?

4. In the end of Chapter 6, Sarny says that John won't be coming back unless what happens?

5. What material does Mammy make John's pants from in Chapter 3?

(see the answer key)

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