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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Sarny doing when the master arrives with John in Chapter 3?
(a) Changing the babies' diapers.
(b) Cleaning the eating trough.
(c) Feeding the chickens.
(d) Watering the flower garden.

2. How does Sarny describe Mrs. Waller's sister in Chapter 2?
(a) Dried up and mean.
(b) Gentle and kind.
(c) Soft spoken and meek.
(d) Proud and beautiful.

3. What word from Chapter 5 means to faint or lose consciousness?
(a) Conjecture.
(b) Careen.
(c) Incur.
(d) Swoon.

4. How old was Sarny when her birth mother was sold?
(a) 2.
(b) 6.
(c) 12.
(d) 4.

5. How is the pit school lit when Sarny arrives with John in Chapter 7?
(a) By torches.
(b) By flashlights.
(c) By lanterns.
(d) By candles.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many more nights does John say until he's gone when Mammy catches him teaching Sarny a new letter in Chapter 6?

2. What does Mammy do when she first sees John teaching Sarny the letters of the alphabet in Chapter 4?

3. Sarny says in Chapter 5 that "They say if you can" do what that "you can work"?

4. What does Master Waller order Mammy to do after he has whipped Alice at the spring house in Chapter 4?

5. What place does Sarny describe in the end of Chapter 5?

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