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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many letters of the alphabet has Sarny learned at the beginning of Chapter 5?
(a) 7.
(b) 10.
(c) 3.
(d) 5.

2. How does Waller punish Mammy after the slaves return from the fields in Chapter 5?
(a) He chops off two of her toes.
(b) He makes her pull a horse buggy.
(c) He lets the dogs attack her.
(d) He hangs her.

3. Where on the plantation does Waller keep his dogs?
(a) Inside the white house.
(b) In a stone pen by the horse barn.
(c) In a pit by the slave quarters.
(d) In a metal pen by the cotton fields.

4. What does Mammy tell Sarny to prepare to treat her wounds after she is whipped in Chapter 5?
(a) Lotion and iodine.
(b) Rags and salt.
(c) Bark and herbs.
(d) A needle and thread.

5. What word from Chapter 5 means to faint or lose consciousness?
(a) Incur.
(b) Swoon.
(c) Conjecture.
(d) Careen.

Short Answer Questions

1. What emotion does John's story about his past inspire in Mammy in Chapter 4?

2. What does Sarny remark about her birth in Chapter 1?

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

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

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

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