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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many field hands does Waller take with him to look for John the morning after he's fled in Chapter 7?
(a) 3.
(b) 5.
(c) 2.
(d) 4.

2. What is Mammy doing when Sarny runs to her as she tries to escape Waller in Chapter 5?
(a) Cooking breakfast.
(b) Tending the flower bed.
(c) Tending Alice's wounds.
(d) Working in the fields.

3. How many people are at the pit school when Sarny arrives with John in Chapter 7?
(a) 3.
(b) 4.
(c) 12.
(d) 7.

4. What food item does Sarny bring to Mammy while she's strung up at the spring house in Chapter 5?
(a) A piece of bacon.
(b) A piece of cornbread.
(c) A bowl of oatmeal.
(d) A potato.

5. What does Sarny remark about her birth in Chapter 1?
(a) She was born blind.
(b) She was born premature.
(c) She came out backwards.
(d) She was born deaf.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mammy tell Sarny to bring to her as she makes her way to the slave quarters in the end of Chapter 5?

2. 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?

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

4. What is the last letter that John introduces Sarny to in Chapter 4?

5. What is John's response when Sarny asks him in Chapter 3, "Why they be cutting our thumbs off if we learn to read--if that's all it is?"

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