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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Mammy doing when Sarny runs to her as she tries to escape Waller in Chapter 5?
(a) Tending Alice's wounds.
(b) Cooking breakfast.
(c) Tending the flower bed.
(d) Working in the fields.

2. What must the slaves do whenever someone is punished at the spring house?
(a) Stand and watch.
(b) Pray.
(c) Plow the fields.
(d) Kneel and look away.

3. What chore does Mammy tell Sarny to do while Mammy is hanging from the spring house in Chapter 5?
(a) To water the flowers.
(b) To make breakfast.
(c) To paint the shed.
(d) To tend to the babies.

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 slaves be forbidden from attending church.
(b) That the child of a slave was a slave.
(c) That escaped slaves must be returned to their master.
(d) That slaves were forbidden from reading and writing.

5. 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) 1826.
(b) 1794.
(c) 1739.
(d) 1865.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Master Waller order Mammy to do after he has whipped Alice at the spring house in Chapter 4?

3. What is Sarny doing when the master arrives with John in Chapter 3?

4. What does Sarny say that the slaves call the master and mistress when they are in the slave quarters and out of hearing in Chapter 2?

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

(see the answer key)

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