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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Sarny describe the financial circumstances of the master's family in Chapter 2?
(a) They are poor.
(b) They have gone bankrupt.
(c) They are rich.
(d) They are struggling after the war.

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

3. What does John use on his makeshift shoes to throw the dogs' scent off in Chapter 6?
(a) Horse manure.
(b) Lard and pepper.
(c) Gasoline.
(d) Salt and iodine.

4. What does John ask Sarny to fetch for him from the barn in Chapter 6?
(a) A piece of rawhide.
(b) The horse carriage.
(c) A shovel.
(d) An axe.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does John wrap around his toes before he leaves in Chapter 6?

3. "Partus sequitur ventrem" was a legal doctrine adopted widely into the laws of slavery in the American colonies. What did this law dictate?

4. What does Waller order the field hands to do when he is finished punishing John in Chapter 5?

5. What major theme of the novel emerges in Chapter 3?

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