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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the stump used for that Waller orders one of the field hands to fetch in Chapter 5?
(a) Chopping the heads off chickens.
(b) Painting the house.
(c) Hanging slaves.
(d) Chopping firewood.

2. What is the name of the slave that raises Sarny?
(a) Margaret.
(b) Alice.
(c) Alaine.
(d) Old Delie.

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

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?
(a) The perpetrator of evil.
(b) Witches and warlocks.
(c) Dog droppings or horse crap.
(d) The kind and queen of the castle.

5. What does Mammy tell Sarny to fetch as John is taken to the slave quarters after his punishment in Chapter 5?
(a) Bacon.
(b) Boiling water.
(c) Cornbread.
(d) Salt.

Short Answer Questions

1. Mammy says in Chapter 1 that Sarny's mother sold for the value of how many field hands?

2. Why does mammy say Sarny's birth mother was sold in Chapter 1?

3. How many slaves are estimated to have escaped to freedom in American History?

4. What does Sarny describe Mammy putting her head into in order to pray in Chapter 2?

5. What does John offer to trade with the slaves in the sleeping quarters on his first night in Chapter 3?

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