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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many slaves are estimated to have escaped to freedom in American History?
(a) Two million.
(b) Sixty thousand.
(c) One million.
(d) Half a million.

2. In whose memory is Nightjohn dedicated by the author in the opening pages?
(a) In Frederick Douglass's memory.
(b) In Sally Hemings' memory.
(c) In Harriet Tubman's memory.
(d) In John Brown's memory.

3. What word from Chapter 3 refers to a gourd used for eating or drinking?
(a) Proscenium.
(b) Visor.
(c) Calabash.
(d) Marigold.

4. From what device do Sarny and the other slaves eat their meals at the plantation?
(a) From a trough.
(b) From a cauldron.
(c) From a long table.
(d) From a grill.

5. Where does Sarny demonstrate the "letters" that she discovered on the feed sack for John in Chapter 3?
(a) She scratches it into the tree.
(b) She scratches it into the dirt floor.
(c) She writes it with a pen and paper.
(d) She etches it into the wooden door.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Jim die after he attempted escape?

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

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

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

5. In what century was the Atlantic slave established?

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