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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What has caused some of the leaves to fall off of the flowers that Sarny is tending in the flower garden in Chapter 2?
(a) Over-watering.
(b) Under-watering.
(c) Chemical pesticides.
(d) Little green bugs.

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

3. When did Pennsylvania pass legislation to end slavery?
(a) 1885.
(b) 1799.
(c) 1780.
(d) 1865.

4. Why does Mammy pray in the manner that she does?
(a) She is practicing witchcraft.
(b) She is Muslim.
(c) She is worshiping African deities.
(d) Slaves are forbidden to pray.

5. How old was Sarny when her birth mother was sold?
(a) 4.
(b) 6.
(c) 2.
(d) 12.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Mr. Waller's first name?

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

3. Sarny states at the end of Chapter 2 that she knows the "people in the white house aren't richer" than whom?

4. In Chapter 1, Sarny says that some believed she brought Nightjohn to the plantation by what manner?

5. In what year did the United States Congress pass a Slave Trade Act which prohibited the building or outfitting of ships in the U.S. for use in the slave trade?

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