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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In what year did the United States Congress pass a Slave Trade Act which prohibited the building or outfitting of ships in the U.S. for use in the slave trade?
(a) 1739.
(b) 1794.
(c) 1826.
(d) 1865.

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

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

5. 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?
(a) Alliteration.
(b) Allusion.
(c) Simile.
(d) Onomatopoeia.

Short Answer Questions

1. What word used in Chapter 3 refers to the process of preparing corn for eating?

2. What does Sarny compare the color of John's skin with in Chapter 3?

3. What does Mammy pray for when Sarny witnesses her praying in Chapter 2?

4. What substance does Sarny equate the color of her skin with in Chapter 3?

5. What term refers to the movement to end slavery?

(see the answer key)

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