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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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) Chemical pesticides.
(c) Under-watering.
(d) Little green bugs.

3. What were the "funny lines" that Sarny recalls seeing on the side of a feed sack in Chapter 3?
(a) $20.
(b) 100 lbs.
(c) FEED.
(d) GRAIN.

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

5. How does Sarny describe the financial circumstances of the master's family in Chapter 2?
(a) They are poor.
(b) They are struggling after the war.
(c) They are rich.
(d) They have gone bankrupt.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did the U.S. Congress outlaw the importation of slaves?

2. What kind of flowers is Sarny working on in the flower bed in the beginning of 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. What does Sarny say her last name is in Chapter 1?

5. Where does Sarny say she was when she first heard about Nightjohn in Chapter 1?

(see the answer key)

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