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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What term refers to the movement to end slavery?
(a) Suffragism.
(b) Calvinism.
(c) Humanism.
(d) Abolitionism.

4. What does Sarny say that the slaves call the master and mistress when they are in the slave quarters and out of hearing in Chapter 2?
(a) The perpetrator of evil.
(b) Witches and warlocks.
(c) Dog droppings or horse crap.
(d) The kind and queen of the castle.

5. How much money does Mrs. Waller say that her husband just spent on a new hand in Chapter 2?
(a) About $10,000.
(b) Over $1,000.
(c) Under $100.
(d) About $500.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of coin does Sarny describe finding in the dirt in Chapter 2?

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

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

4. What does Sarny remark about her birth in Chapter 1?

5. How does Sarny describe Mrs. Waller's sister in Chapter 2?

(see the answer key)

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