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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What must the slaves do whenever someone is punished at the spring house?
(a) Pray.
(b) Plow the fields.
(c) Kneel and look away.
(d) Stand and watch.

2. What is "the next letter" that John introduces to Sarny on the second night of his recovery in Chapter 6?
(a) R.
(b) L.
(c) J.
(d) H.

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

4. What is Mammy doing when Sarny runs to her as she tries to escape Waller in Chapter 5?
(a) Tending the flower bed.
(b) Working in the fields.
(c) Cooking breakfast.
(d) Tending Alice's wounds.

5. What does Mammy tell Sarny to bring to her as she makes her way to the slave quarters in the end of Chapter 5?
(a) Tobacco to put on her wounds.
(b) Clothing to cover herself.
(c) Whiskey to drink.
(d) Water to drink.

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

7. How did Jim die after he attempted escape?
(a) He was lynched.
(b) He bled to death after castration.
(c) He was shot.
(d) He was killed by Waller's dogs.

8. How many more nights does John say until he's gone when Mammy catches him teaching Sarny a new letter in Chapter 6?
(a) 4 nights.
(b) 2 nights.
(c) 5 nights.
(d) 3 nights.

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

10. Mammy tells John in Chapter 6, "you are born to" what?
(a) Leave.
(b) Be free.
(c) Teach.
(d) Love.

11. What does Mammy tell Sarny to prepare to treat her wounds after she is whipped in Chapter 5?
(a) Rags and salt.
(b) A needle and thread.
(c) Bark and herbs.
(d) Lotion and iodine.

12. What does Master Waller do when he finds Alice after she's run in Chapter 4?
(a) He hangs her.
(b) He shoots her.
(c) He lets the dogs attack her.
(d) He hangs her on the spring house.

13. Why does Sarny say the slaves all know not to run in Chapter 4?
(a) Because nobody ever gets away.
(b) Because it is wrong.
(c) Because there is nowhere to run to.
(d) Because they love the master.

14. What does Mammy assert that reading and writing will bring for the slaves in Chapter 4?
(a) A record of history.
(b) Grief.
(c) Hope.
(d) A path to freedom.

15. What question does Sarny always ask about the letters of the alphabet when John introduces them to her?
(a) Where the top is.
(b) Where the bottom is.
(c) What it feels like.
(d) What words it makes.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Abraham Lincoln issue the Emancipation Proclamation proclaiming the freedom of slaves in the ten states that were still in rebellion?

2. What does Mammy ask John when she sees him teaching Sarny in Chapter 6?

3. Where did Pawley find a girl he liked, according to Sarny's story in Chapter 4?

4. What emotion does John's story about his past inspire in Mammy in Chapter 4?

5. What quality stands out the most in John's character?

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