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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) Playing a harmonica that she found in town.
(b) Drawing pictures in the sand in the chicken shed.
(c) Singing songs that she learned in church.
(d) Laying in bed thinking about what she's learned.

2. What does Sarny remark about her birth in Chapter 1?
(a) She was born premature.
(b) She came out backwards.
(c) She was born deaf.
(d) She was born blind.

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

4. "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 the child of a slave was a slave.
(b) That escaped slaves must be returned to their master.
(c) That slaves be forbidden from attending church.
(d) That slaves were forbidden from reading and writing.

5. What is the name of the slave that raises Sarny?
(a) Margaret.
(b) Alaine.
(c) Alice.
(d) Old Delie.

Short Answer Questions

1. What historical figure "owned, raised, and subsequently used" the slave that the novel is dedicated to by the author?

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

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

4. What euphemism does Sarny use to describe menstruation in Chapter 1?

5. What European country was the first to engage in the New World slave trade?

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