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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What substance does Sarny equate the color of her skin with in Chapter 3?
(a) Brown sugar.
(b) Coffee.
(c) Sassafras tea.
(d) Molasses.

2. What derogatory name does John refer to Master Waller as when Sarny tells him about Mammy in Chapter 5?
(a) Horse's ass.
(b) Cracker.
(c) Bastard.
(d) Ogre.

3. Mammy says in Chapter 1 that Sarny's mother sold for the value of how many field hands?
(a) 3.
(b) 4.
(c) 2.
(d) 6.

4. How long does Mammy suggest that John wait before running in order to heal in Chapter 6?
(a) A week.
(b) A year.
(c) Two weeks.
(d) A month.

5. Who were the people that captured John after he'd fled?
(a) Cotton traders.
(b) Bear hunters.
(c) Country lawmen.
(d) Bounty hunters.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is "the next letter" that John introduces to Sarny on the second night of his recovery in Chapter 6?

2. Where does Waller spend the day while Mammy is shackled to the spring house in Chapter 5?

3. By what order does John teach Sarny to learn letters?

4. 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?

5. Where does Sarny demonstrate the "letters" that she discovered on the feed sack for John in Chapter 3?

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