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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. How does Mammy notate the ages of the slave children that she raises?
(a) By marking notches on sticks.
(b) By putting stakes in the ground.
(c) By scratching marks on the floor.
(d) By collecting pebbles in a jar.

5. When did the U.S. Congress outlaw the importation of slaves?
(a) March 26, 1865.
(b) January 1, 1808.
(c) July 7, 1800.
(d) April 12, 1799.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. 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?

3. What does Sarny say her last name is in Chapter 1?

4. Where does Sarny say she was when she first heard about Nightjohn in Chapter 1?

5. "Partus sequitur ventrem" was a legal doctrine adopted widely into the laws of slavery in the American colonies. What did this law dictate?

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