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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did Pennsylvania pass legislation to end slavery?
(a) 1780.
(b) 1885.
(c) 1865.
(d) 1799.

2. From what device do Sarny and the other slaves eat their meals at the plantation?
(a) From a trough.
(b) From a grill.
(c) From a cauldron.
(d) From a long table.

3. What does Sarny think about when she finally lays down in bed at the end of Chapter 3?
(a) Her mother.
(b) The letter A.
(c) Her father.
(d) Mrs. Waller's dog.

4. What word from Chapter 3 refers to a person who manages slaves on a plantation?
(a) Overseer.
(b) Dunce.
(c) Maestro.
(d) Vestibule.

5. What does Mammy pray for when Sarny witnesses her praying in Chapter 2?
(a) Literacy.
(b) A husband.
(c) A child.
(d) Freedom.

6. What has caused some of the leaves to fall off of the flowers that Sarny is tending in the flower garden in Chapter 2?
(a) Little green bugs.
(b) Chemical pesticides.
(c) Under-watering.
(d) Over-watering.

7. Where has Sarny observed people reading prior to meeting John?
(a) In the white house.
(b) In town.
(c) At the slave market.
(d) At church.

8. What European country was the first to engage in the New World slave trade?
(a) Great Britain.
(b) Spain.
(c) France.
(d) Portugal.

9. What does Sarny recall Mammy telling her to do with the coin that she found in the dirt in Chapter 2?
(a) To hide it.
(b) To give it to the master.
(c) To spend it.
(d) To give it to her.

10. What does Sarny say they pour down the trough in the mornings for the slaves in Chapter 3?
(a) Oatmeal.
(b) Buttermilk.
(c) Coffee.
(d) Tea.

11. What term refers to efforts toward procuring economic and social rights, political rights or equality, often for a specifically disenfranchised group?
(a) Emancipation.
(b) Eclecticism.
(c) Abolition.
(d) Suffragism.

12. What sound does Sarny compare John's laughter to in Chapter 3?
(a) Distant thunder.
(b) A witch's cackle.
(c) A crow's call.
(d) A lion's roar.

13. Sarny states at the end of Chapter 2 that she knows the "people in the white house aren't richer" than whom?
(a) Mammy.
(b) God.
(c) The President.
(d) My father.

14. How would you describe Sarny's perception of life outside of the plantation in Chapter 2?
(a) Sarny experienced a brutal life outside the plantation when she was bought by Mr. Waller.
(b) Sarny has no knowledge of life outside of the plantation.
(c) Sarny views life outside the plantation as harsher than life within the plantation.
(d) Sarny's experiences outside the plantation have led her to desire freedom.

15. What does Sarny describe Mammy putting her head into in order to pray in Chapter 2?
(a) A cooking pot.
(b) A burlap sack.
(c) A holy veil.
(d) A fireplace.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where are the flower beds described that Sarny tends from time to time in Chapter 1?

2. How much money does Mrs. Waller say that her husband just spent on a new hand in Chapter 2?

3. What had Mammy done when Sarny copied the letters from the feed sack in the dirt when she was younger?

4. What kind of flowers is Sarny working on in the flower bed in the beginning of Chapter 2?

5. What substance does Sarny equate the color of her skin with in Chapter 3?

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