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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Sarny describe the financial circumstances of the master's family in Chapter 2?
(a) They are struggling after the war.
(b) They have gone bankrupt.
(c) They are rich.
(d) They are poor.

2. How old is Sarny in Chapter 1?
(a) 10.
(b) 15.
(c) 8.
(d) 12.

3. What substance does Sarny equate the color of her skin with in Chapter 3?
(a) Molasses.
(b) Brown sugar.
(c) Sassafras tea.
(d) Coffee.

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

5. In whose memory is Nightjohn dedicated by the author in the opening pages?
(a) In Harriet Tubman's memory.
(b) In Sally Hemings' memory.
(c) In Frederick Douglass's memory.
(d) In John Brown's memory.

6. How old was Sarny when her birth mother was sold?
(a) 4.
(b) 2.
(c) 6.
(d) 12.

7. What major theme of the novel emerges in Chapter 3?
(a) Longing and forbidden love.
(b) The pain of betrayal.
(c) The importance of literacy.
(d) Political corruption.

8. How many miles does John say they run him in his first day in Chapter 3?
(a) 20.
(b) 10.
(c) 5.
(d) 8.

9. What is the name of the slave that raises Sarny?
(a) Margaret.
(b) Old Delie.
(c) Alaine.
(d) Alice.

10. What does Sarny enjoy doing every evening after the slaves eat?
(a) Drawing pictures in the sand in the chicken shed.
(b) Singing songs that she learned in church.
(c) Laying in bed thinking about what she's learned.
(d) Playing a harmonica that she found in town.

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

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

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

14. In Chapter 1, Sarny says that some believed she brought Nightjohn to the plantation by what manner?
(a) Begging the master.
(b) Acting intelligent.
(c) Train.
(d) Witchery.

15. In what year did the United States Congress pass a Slave Trade Act which prohibited the building or outfitting of ships in the U.S. for use in the slave trade?
(a) 1794.
(b) 1826.
(c) 1865.
(d) 1739.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. 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?

3. What does Mammy pray for when Sarny witnesses her praying in Chapter 2?

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

5. What does Sarny remark about her birth in Chapter 1?

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