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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What food item does Sarny bring to Mammy while she's strung up at the spring house in Chapter 5?
(a) A piece of cornbread.
(b) A piece of bacon.
(c) A potato.
(d) A bowl of oatmeal.

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

4. What emotion does John's story about his past inspire in Mammy in Chapter 4?
(a) Hope.
(b) Disdain.
(c) Rage.
(d) Humiliation.

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

6. Sarny says in Chapter 5 that "They say if you can" do what that "you can work"?
(a) Eat solid food.
(b) Stand up.
(c) Talk back to the master.
(d) Walk to the fields.

7. What material is the spring house made of at the plantation?
(a) Adobe.
(b) Wood.
(c) Stone.
(d) Tin.

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

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

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

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

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

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

14. What does John make shoes from before he runs away in Chapter 6?
(a) Tree bark.
(b) Cloth rags.
(c) Rubber tires.
(d) Rawhide.

15. What creatures does Mammy remark upon when Sarny runs to her at the spring house in Chapter 5?
(a) The birds.
(b) Waller's dogs.
(c) The bees.
(d) The cats.

Short Answer Questions

1. What color does Sarny describe Waller's dogs as in Chapter 4?

2. What reason does John give for returning to slavery after he'd achieved freedom in Chapter 4?

3. What does Waller order the field hands to do when he is finished punishing John in Chapter 5?

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

5. What chore does Mammy tell Sarny to do while Mammy is hanging from the spring house in Chapter 5?

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