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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What does Sarny enjoy doing every evening after the slaves eat?
(a) Playing a harmonica that she found in town.
(b) Singing songs that she learned in church.
(c) Laying in bed thinking about what she's learned.
(d) Drawing pictures in the sand in the chicken shed.

5. What is Sarny doing when the master arrives with John in Chapter 3?
(a) Watering the flower garden.
(b) Changing the babies' diapers.
(c) Feeding the chickens.
(d) Cleaning the eating trough.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Sarny do with the coin that she found after showing it to Mammy?

2. How many miles does John say they run him in his first day in Chapter 3?

3. What is the name of the slave that raises Sarny?

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

5. From what device do Sarny and the other slaves eat their meals at the plantation?

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