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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Mammy make for Alice to drink after tending her wounds in Chapter 4?
(a) Coffee.
(b) Root tea.
(c) Whiskey and water.
(d) Molasses tea.

2. When did Abraham Lincoln issue the Emancipation Proclamation proclaiming the freedom of slaves in the ten states that were still in rebellion?
(a) 1863.
(b) 1800.
(c) 1795.
(d) 1902.

3. By what order does John teach Sarny to learn letters?
(a) Write the letter, and say a word with that letter.
(b) Write the letter in upper, then lower-case.
(c) Make the sound, then the letter.
(d) Write the letter, then write it in cursive.

4. Where does Sarny demonstrate the "letters" that she discovered on the feed sack for John in Chapter 3?
(a) She etches it into the wooden door.
(b) She scratches it into the tree.
(c) She scratches it into the dirt floor.
(d) She writes it with a pen and paper.

5. Where does Sarny make words with the letters that she knows during John's absence in Chapter 7?
(a) On a chalkboard.
(b) In the dirt.
(c) In a notebook.
(d) In her head.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Sarny describe Mrs. Waller's sister in Chapter 2?

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

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

4. What has caused some of the leaves to fall off of the flowers that Sarny is tending in the flower garden in Chapter 2?

5. What were the "funny lines" that Sarny recalls seeing on the side of a feed sack in Chapter 3?

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