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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What kind of flowers is Sarny working on in the flower bed in the beginning of Chapter 2?
(a) Roses.
(b) Pansies.
(c) Crocuses.
(d) Daffodils.

2. What does Master Waller do when he finds Alice after she's run in Chapter 4?
(a) He hangs her on the spring house.
(b) He shoots her.
(c) He lets the dogs attack her.
(d) He hangs her.

3. Why does mammy say Sarny's birth mother was sold in Chapter 1?
(a) She was a good midwife.
(b) She was a good cotton-picker.
(c) She was a good breeder.
(d) She was a good house maid.

4. "Partus sequitur ventrem" was a legal doctrine adopted widely into the laws of slavery in the American colonies. What did this law dictate?
(a) That escaped slaves must be returned to their master.
(b) That slaves be forbidden from attending church.
(c) That the child of a slave was a slave.
(d) That slaves were forbidden from reading and writing.

5. What word from Chapter 3 refers to a person who manages slaves on a plantation?
(a) Vestibule.
(b) Maestro.
(c) Dunce.
(d) Overseer.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What derogatory name does John refer to Master Waller as when Sarny tells him about Mammy in Chapter 5?

4. What major theme of the novel emerges in Chapter 3?

5. What does Sarny think about when she finally lays down in bed at the end of Chapter 3?

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