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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where are the flower beds described that Sarny tends from time to time in Chapter 1?
(a) In the front entrance to the slave quarters.
(b) Below the big window on the white house.
(c) By the roadside under the elm tree.
(d) In the back garden of the slave quarters.

2. What kind of work does Sarny say she is not yet old enough to do on the plantation in Chapter 1?
(a) Yard work.
(b) Field work.
(c) Helping with the young ones.
(d) Gathering eggs.

3. What is Mr. Waller's first name?
(a) Horace.
(b) Clel.
(c) Andrew.
(d) Homer.

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

5. What had Mammy done when Sarny copied the letters from the feed sack in the dirt when she was younger?
(a) She laughed.
(b) She smacked her.
(c) She told Waller.
(d) She praised her.

6. What does John tell Sarny she will have to learn before she can learn to read in Chapter 3?
(a) How to count.
(b) How to be quiet.
(c) The rules of grammar.
(d) The alphabet.

7. 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) A new house.
(b) Farm supplies.
(c) Dresses.
(d) Livestock.

8. What is foreshadowed by Sarny's story about finding the coin in the dirt in Chapter 2?
(a) Sarny's death.
(b) Sarny's marriage.
(c) Sarny's education.
(d) Sarny's eventual wealth.

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

10. How would you describe the treatment of the slaves on Waller's plantation?
(a) The slaves are treated compassionately.
(b) The slaves are treated like animals.
(c) The slaves are treated like treasured valuables.
(d) The slaves are treated like kings.

11. When did the U.S. Congress outlaw the importation of slaves?
(a) March 26, 1865.
(b) July 7, 1800.
(c) January 1, 1808.
(d) April 12, 1799.

12. Mammy says in Chapter 1 that Sarny's mother sold for the value of how many field hands?
(a) 6.
(b) 2.
(c) 3.
(d) 4.

13. 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's experiences outside the plantation have led her to desire freedom.
(d) Sarny views life outside the plantation as harsher than life within the plantation.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of coin does Sarny describe finding in the dirt in Chapter 2?

2. What does Sarny recall Mammy telling her to do with the coin that she found in the dirt in Chapter 2?

3. In Chapter 1, Sarny says that some believed she brought Nightjohn to the plantation by what manner?

4. What does Sarny think about when she finally lays down in bed at the end of Chapter 3?

5. What is Sarny doing when the master arrives with John in Chapter 3?

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