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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Sarny overhears the mistress of the plantation in Chapter 2, the mistress is complaining that her husband spends too much money buying slaves. What is she concerned that she will not have enough money to purchase due to her husband's overspending?
(a) Dresses.
(b) Livestock.
(c) Farm supplies.
(d) A new house.

2. What word from Chapter 3 refers to a gourd used for eating or drinking?
(a) Calabash.
(b) Visor.
(c) Proscenium.
(d) Marigold.

3. What does Sarny say is forbidden in the slaves' sleeping quarters in Chapter 3?
(a) Light.
(b) Beds.
(c) Water.
(d) Food.

4. What does Sarny say that the slaves call the master and mistress when they are in the slave quarters and out of hearing in Chapter 2?
(a) The kind and queen of the castle.
(b) Witches and warlocks.
(c) The perpetrator of evil.
(d) Dog droppings or horse crap.

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

6. What term refers to the movement to end slavery?
(a) Humanism.
(b) Calvinism.
(c) Suffragism.
(d) Abolitionism.

7. How is John attired when he first arrives at the plantation in Chapter 3?
(a) He is nude.
(b) He is wearing a night gown.
(c) He is wearing a cape.
(d) He is wearing canvas pants.

8. What substance does Sarny treat the flowers with in Chapter 2?
(a) Bubblegum.
(b) Turpentine.
(c) Tobacco juice.
(d) Chemical pesticide.

9. What euphemism does Sarny use to describe menstruation in Chapter 1?
(a) Womanhood.
(b) The spots.
(c) Aunt Mary.
(d) The trouble.

10. What does Sarny say her last name is in Chapter 1?
(a) Freeman.
(b) Smith.
(c) Waller.
(d) Thomas.

11. What does John offer to trade with the slaves in the sleeping quarters on his first night in Chapter 3?
(a) Soup.
(b) Letters.
(c) Prayers.
(d) Songs.

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

13. Why does mammy say Sarny's birth mother was sold in Chapter 1?
(a) She was a good breeder.
(b) She was a good cotton-picker.
(c) She was a good house maid.
(d) She was a good midwife.

14. What refers to the laws in each U.S. state which defined the status of slaves and the rights of masters?
(a) Penance practices.
(b) Abolition laws.
(c) Slave codes.
(d) Masterly rules.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is foreshadowed by Sarny's story about finding the coin in the dirt in Chapter 2?

2. Mammy says in Chapter 1 that Sarny's mother sold for the value of how many field hands?

3. What does John call out for from the slaves in the sleeping quarters on his first night at the plantation in Chapter 3?

4. What is the name of Mrs. Waller's sister?

5. What does John cover in his first "lesson" with Sarny in Chapter 3?

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