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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Mrs. Waller's first name?
(a) Alaine.
(b) Alice.
(c) Margaret.
(d) Delie.

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

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

4. What kind of coin does Sarny describe finding in the dirt in Chapter 2?
(a) A nickel.
(b) A quarter.
(c) A penny.
(d) A dime.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What term refers to the movement to end slavery?

3. What does Sarny enjoy doing every evening after the slaves eat?

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

5. What substance does Sarny treat the flowers with in Chapter 2?

(see the answer key)

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