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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Sarny demonstrate the "letters" that she discovered on the feed sack for John in Chapter 3?
(a) She writes it with a pen and paper.
(b) She scratches it into the dirt floor.
(c) She etches it into the wooden door.
(d) She scratches it into the tree.

2. What is foreshadowed by Sarny's story about finding the coin in the dirt in Chapter 2?
(a) Sarny's eventual wealth.
(b) Sarny's marriage.
(c) Sarny's death.
(d) Sarny's education.

3. What does the author assert about the events in the story at the opening of the novel?
(a) The events in the story are satirical.
(b) The events in the story are purely from the imagination of the author and not based on any historical people.
(c) The events are true except for variation in time and character identification.
(d) The events in the story are loosely based on events that occurred in Cleveland, Mississippi, in 1861.

4. How does Sarny describe John's back when he arrives in Chapter 3?
(a) It is black and smooth.
(b) It is proud beneath his shirt.
(c) It is milky white.
(d) It is covered in scars.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How is John attired when he first arrives at the plantation in Chapter 3?

2. What major theme of the novel emerges in Chapter 3?

3. Sarny says of Mammy in Chapter 2, "She swore they could hear like cats up to the big house..." What literary device is used in this example?

4. What has caused some of the leaves to fall off of the flowers that Sarny is tending in the flower garden in Chapter 2?

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

(see the answer key)

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