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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where are the flower beds described that Sarny tends from time to time in Chapter 1?
(a) In the front entrance to the slave quarters.
(b) In the back garden of the slave quarters.
(c) Below the big window on the white house.
(d) By the roadside under the elm tree.

2. What does Sarny say her last name is in Chapter 1?
(a) Smith.
(b) Waller.
(c) Freeman.
(d) Thomas.

3. What historical figure "owned, raised, and subsequently used" the slave that the novel is dedicated to by the author?
(a) Theodore Roosevelt.
(b) Thomas Jefferson.
(c) Benjamin Franklin.
(d) Robert E. Lee.

4. What European country was the first to engage in the New World slave trade?
(a) Spain.
(b) France.
(c) Great Britain.
(d) Portugal.

5. In what century was the Atlantic slave established?
(a) The 15th century.
(b) The 18th century.
(c) The 17th century.
(d) The 16th century.

Short Answer Questions

1. Mammy says in Chapter 1 that Sarny's mother sold for the value of how many field hands?

2. What kind of work does Sarny say she is not yet old enough to do on the plantation in Chapter 1?

3. What does the author assert about the events in the story at the opening of the novel?

4. What does Sarny remark about her birth 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?

(see the answer key)

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