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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many slaves are estimated to have escaped to freedom in American History?
(a) One million.
(b) Half a million.
(c) Sixty thousand.
(d) Two million.

2. What color does Sarny describe Waller's dogs as in Chapter 4?
(a) Yellow.
(b) Black.
(c) Red.
(d) Gray.

3. What does John say to Sarny before he leaves in Chapter 6?
(a) That he will be back.
(b) That he is going to kill Waller.
(c) That he wishes her a good life.
(d) That she should come with him.

4. What does John wrap around his toes before he leaves in Chapter 6?
(a) Rags.
(b) Pork skin.
(c) Plastic wrap.
(d) Raw cotton.

5. What does Sarny make of John's departing statement in the end of Chapter 6?
(a) She believes he is lying.
(b) She believes he is telling the truth.
(c) She believes he is just being hopeful.
(d) She believes he is joking.

6. What word from Chapter 5 means to faint or lose consciousness?
(a) Conjecture.
(b) Swoon.
(c) Careen.
(d) Incur.

7. What does Mammy do after John explains the reasoning behind his motives in Chapter 4?
(a) She starts to cry.
(b) She hits John again.
(c) She returns to bed.
(d) She calls for the master.

8. What chore does Mammy tell Sarny to do while Mammy is hanging from the spring house in Chapter 5?
(a) To water the flowers.
(b) To paint the shed.
(c) To make breakfast.
(d) To tend to the babies.

9. What does Mammy respond when John flirts with her in Chapter 6?
(a) I don't have nothing to do with whites.
(b) I'm young enough to be your daughter.
(c) I'm old enough to be your mother.
(d) I don't got no interest in learning.

10. Where on the plantation does Waller keep his dogs?
(a) In a stone pen by the horse barn.
(b) Inside the white house.
(c) In a metal pen by the cotton fields.
(d) In a pit by the slave quarters.

11. When did Abraham Lincoln issue the Emancipation Proclamation proclaiming the freedom of slaves in the ten states that were still in rebellion?
(a) 1795.
(b) 1863.
(c) 1800.
(d) 1902.

12. What did the master do to Pawley for punishment after he was caught?
(a) He cut off his toes.
(b) He castrated him.
(c) He shot him.
(d) He hung him.

13. How far does Sarny say Alice made it before she was caught in Chapter 4?
(a) To the train station in town.
(b) The other end of the cotton fields.
(c) Halfway to Pennsylvania.
(d) To the door of the sleeping quarters.

14. What word from Chapter 5 refers to the act of writing or marking carelessly?
(a) Pondering.
(b) Scribbling.
(c) Scrambling.
(d) Muttering.

15. How many letters of the alphabet has Sarny learned at the beginning of Chapter 5?
(a) 7.
(b) 3.
(c) 10.
(d) 5.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the field hand who assists in holding down John for his punishment in Chapter 5?

2. Where does Waller kick Sarny when he finds her writing in Chapter 5?

3. What food item does Sarny bring to Mammy while she's strung up at the spring house in Chapter 5?

4. Sarny says in Chapter 5 that "They say if you can" do what that "you can work"?

5. Why does John assert that the slaves must all learn to read and write in Chapter 4?

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