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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) Singing songs that she learned in church.
(c) Drawing pictures in the sand in the chicken shed.
(d) Playing a harmonica that she found in town.

2. "Partus sequitur ventrem" was a legal doctrine adopted widely into the laws of slavery in the American colonies. What did this law dictate?
(a) That slaves were forbidden from reading and writing.
(b) That slaves be forbidden from attending church.
(c) That the child of a slave was a slave.
(d) That escaped slaves must be returned to their master.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does mammy say Sarny's birth mother was sold in Chapter 1?

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

3. In what century was the Atlantic slave established?

4. From what device do Sarny and the other slaves eat their meals at the plantation?

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

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