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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what century was the Atlantic slave established?
(a) The 16th century.
(b) The 18th century.
(c) The 15th century.
(d) The 17th century.

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

3. What word from Chapter 3 refers to a person who manages slaves on a plantation?
(a) Maestro.
(b) Dunce.
(c) Overseer.
(d) Vestibule.

4. What term refers to the movement to end slavery?
(a) Abolitionism.
(b) Suffragism.
(c) Calvinism.
(d) Humanism.

5. When Sarny overhears the mistress of the plantation in Chapter 2, the mistress is complaining that her husband spends too much money buying slaves. What is she concerned that she will not have enough money to purchase due to her husband's overspending?
(a) A new house.
(b) Dresses.
(c) Livestock.
(d) Farm supplies.

Short Answer Questions

1. What term refers to efforts toward procuring economic and social rights, political rights or equality, often for a specifically disenfranchised group?

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

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

4. How many miles does John say they run him in his first day in Chapter 3?

5. What refers to the laws in each U.S. state which defined the status of slaves and the rights of masters?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is John's appearance described when he first arrives at the plantation in Chapter 3?

2. What was Mammy's response when she discovered Sarny copying the symbols from the grain sack into the dirt when she was a child? Why did she react in this manner?

3. What job or jobs does Sarny do around the plantation in Chapter 1?

4. What is foreshadowed by Sarny's description of the penny that she once found in Chapter 2?

5. How does Mr. Waller behave toward John as he brings him into the plantation in Chapter 3?

6. How does Sarny describe Mammy's method of praying in Chapter 2? Why does Mammy pray this way?

7. What does Sarny overhear from the white house while she works in Chapter 2?

8. How does the author illustrate Sarny's only encounter with money in Chapter 2?

9. How does John behave toward the other slaves after his arrival in Chapter 3?

10. What does Mammy measure on the sticks that she keeps for each child on the plantation? Why?

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