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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What word from Chapter 3 refers to a gourd used for eating or drinking?
(a) Proscenium.
(b) Marigold.
(c) Visor.
(d) Calabash.

2. When Sarny overhears the mistress of the plantation in Chapter 2, the mistress is complaining that her husband spends too much money buying slaves. What is she concerned that she will not have enough money to purchase due to her husband's overspending?
(a) A new house.
(b) Farm supplies.
(c) Livestock.
(d) Dresses.

3. What does Sarny think about when she finally lays down in bed at the end of Chapter 3?
(a) Her father.
(b) Mrs. Waller's dog.
(c) The letter A.
(d) Her mother.

4. By current estimates, approximately how many Africans were shipped across the Atlantic during the slave trade?
(a) 12 million.
(b) 20 million.
(c) 7 million.
(d) 5 million.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does Sarny describe the financial circumstances of the master's family in Chapter 2?

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 whose memory is Nightjohn dedicated by the author in the opening pages?

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

(see the answer key)

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