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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Mammy ask John when she sees him teaching Sarny in Chapter 6?
(a) Will you teach me too?
(b) Are you addled in the brain?
(c) What good will that do?
(d) Can I call the others to look?

2. What does Mammy tell Sarny to bring to her at the spring house when the master and others aren't looking in Chapter 5?
(a) Food.
(b) A gun.
(c) Water.
(d) A knife.

3. What name refers to a network of secret routes and safe houses used by slaves in the United States to escape to free states and Canada?
(a) The African Resistance.
(b) The Marked Passage.
(c) The Underground Railroad.
(d) The Freedom Train.

4. What does Waller order the field hands to do when he is finished punishing John in Chapter 5?
(a) Get some boiled water and dip it in that.
(b) Carry his body to the field and bury it.
(c) Get a rag and some grease on that.
(d) Rub salt into his wounds.

5. Where does Waller spend the day while Mammy is shackled to the spring house in Chapter 5?
(a) At a party.
(b) In the white house.
(c) In the fields.
(d) At church.

6. 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) 1800.
(c) 1863.
(d) 1902.

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

8. What does John do on the first night after his punishment from Waller in Chapter 6?
(a) He stares at the ceiling.
(b) He devises a plan for the slaves to revolt.
(c) He talks to Sarny about leaving.
(d) He cries uncontrollably.

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

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

11. What word from Chapter 4 refers to a noisy or disorderly group or gathering?
(a) Gaggle.
(b) Menagerie.
(c) Promenade.
(d) Calabash.

12. When was the first Fugitive Slave Act implemented in the United States requiring all escaped slaves to be returned to their masters?
(a) 1776.
(b) 1865.
(c) 1793.
(d) 1856.

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

14. What is the stump used for that Waller orders one of the field hands to fetch in Chapter 5?
(a) Hanging slaves.
(b) Painting the house.
(c) Chopping the heads off chickens.
(d) Chopping firewood.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does John wrap around his toes before he leaves in Chapter 6?

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

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

4. Mammy tells John in Chapter 6, "you are born to" what?

5. What does Waller order John to do when he steps forward and confesses to teaching Sarny in Chapter 5?

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