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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does John call out for from the slaves in the sleeping quarters on his first night at the plantation in Chapter 3?
(a) Whiskey.
(b) Water.
(c) Tobacco.
(d) Extra food.

3. What term refers to efforts toward procuring economic and social rights, political rights or equality, often for a specifically disenfranchised group?
(a) Abolition.
(b) Emancipation.
(c) Suffragism.
(d) Eclecticism.

4. Mammy says in Chapter 1 that Sarny's mother sold for the value of how many field hands?
(a) 6.
(b) 4.
(c) 3.
(d) 2.

5. In Chapter 1, Sarny says that some believed she brought Nightjohn to the plantation by what manner?
(a) Begging the master.
(b) Train.
(c) Witchery.
(d) Acting intelligent.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Sarny doing when the master arrives with John in Chapter 3?

2. What euphemism does Sarny use to describe menstruation in Chapter 1?

3. How much money does Mrs. Waller say that her husband just spent on a new hand in Chapter 2?

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

5. Where does Sarny demonstrate the "letters" that she discovered on the feed sack for John in Chapter 3?

(see the answer key)

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