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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What place does Sarny describe in the end of Chapter 5?
(a) Hell.
(b) Heaven.
(c) The North.
(d) The cemetery.

2. What major theme of the novel emerges in Chapter 3?
(a) The importance of literacy.
(b) Longing and forbidden love.
(c) The pain of betrayal.
(d) Political corruption.

3. Sarny says in Chapter 5 that "They say if you can" do what that "you can work"?
(a) Eat solid food.
(b) Stand up.
(c) Walk to the fields.
(d) Talk back to the master.

4. What does Mammy do when she first sees John teaching Sarny the letters of the alphabet in Chapter 4?
(a) She laughs at him.
(b) She runs and tells Mr. Waller.
(c) She calls the other slaves to watch.
(d) She hits him over the head.

5. Sarny states at the end of Chapter 2 that she knows the "people in the white house aren't richer" than whom?
(a) Mammy.
(b) God.
(c) The President.
(d) My father.

Short Answer Questions

1. What has caused some of the leaves to fall off of the flowers that Sarny is tending in the flower garden in Chapter 2?

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

3. What is Mrs. Waller's first name?

4. Sarny compares the sound of "the north" to listening to what sounds in Chapter 4?

5. How does Sarny describe Alice's mental state in the beginning of Chapter 4?

(see the answer key)

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