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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 miles does John say they run him in his first day in Chapter 3?
(a) 5.
(b) 20.
(c) 10.
(d) 8.

2. What term refers to the movement to end slavery?
(a) Calvinism.
(b) Suffragism.
(c) Humanism.
(d) Abolitionism.

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

4. How does Waller punish Mammy after the slaves return from the fields in Chapter 5?
(a) He chops off two of her toes.
(b) He lets the dogs attack her.
(c) He makes her pull a horse buggy.
(d) He hangs her.

5. What name refers to a network of secret routes and safe houses used by slaves in the United States to escape to free states and Canada?
(a) The Freedom Train.
(b) The African Resistance.
(c) The Marked Passage.
(d) The Underground Railroad.

Short Answer Questions

1. When John steps forward in Chapter 5, the narrator says, "Waller looked down at him the way a cat looks at a mouse caught in a corner." What literary device is used in this sentence?

2. What does Mammy assert that reading and writing will bring for the slaves in Chapter 4?

3. What substance does Sarny treat the flowers with in Chapter 2?

4. 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?

5. Why does Mammy pray in the manner that she does?

(see the answer key)

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