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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. By current estimates, approximately how many Africans were shipped across the Atlantic during the slave trade?
(a) 5 million.
(b) 20 million.
(c) 7 million.
(d) 12 million.

2. What does Mammy ask John when she sees him teaching Sarny in Chapter 6?
(a) Will you teach me too?
(b) What good will that do?
(c) Are you addled in the brain?
(d) Can I call the others to look?

3. What question does Sarny always ask about the letters of the alphabet when John introduces them to her?
(a) What words it makes.
(b) Where the bottom is.
(c) What it feels like.
(d) Where the top is.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Mammy respond when John flirts with her in Chapter 6?

3. What does John use on his makeshift shoes to throw the dogs' scent off in Chapter 6?

4. What material does Mammy make John's pants from in Chapter 3?

5. What does Sarny make of John's departing statement in the end of Chapter 6?

(see the answer key)

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