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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. Mammy says in Chapter 1 that Sarny's mother sold for the value of how many field hands?
(a) 3.
(b) 2.
(c) 4.
(d) 6.
2. What term refers to the movement to end slavery?
(a) Suffragism.
(b) Humanism.
(c) Calvinism.
(d) Abolitionism.
3. Where are the flower beds described that Sarny tends from time to time in Chapter 1?
(a) In the back garden of the slave quarters.
(b) By the roadside under the elm tree.
(c) In the front entrance to the slave quarters.
(d) Below the big window on the white house.
4. What does John tell Sarny she will have to learn before she can learn to read in Chapter 3?
(a) The rules of grammar.
(b) The alphabet.
(c) How to count.
(d) How to be quiet.
5. What euphemism does Sarny use to describe menstruation in Chapter 1?
(a) Womanhood.
(b) Aunt Mary.
(c) The trouble.
(d) The spots.
Short Answer Questions
1. What European country was the first to engage in the New World slave trade?
2. Where has Sarny observed people reading prior to meeting John?
3. From what device do Sarny and the other slaves eat their meals at the plantation?
4. What term refers to efforts toward procuring economic and social rights, political rights or equality, often for a specifically disenfranchised group?
5. How much money does Mrs. Waller say that her husband just spent on a new hand in Chapter 2?
Short Essay Questions
1. What work is Sarny doing on the plantation in the beginning of Chapter 2? How does she feel about this chore?
2. What does Sarny overhear from the white house while she works in Chapter 2?
3. What is foreshadowed by Sarny's description of the penny that she once found in Chapter 2?
4. How does Sarny describe Mammy's method of praying in Chapter 2? Why does Mammy pray this way?
5. What does Mammy measure on the sticks that she keeps for each child on the plantation? Why?
6. How is John's appearance described when he first arrives at the plantation in Chapter 3?
7. How is Sarny's birth and early childhood described in Chapter 1? Are Sarny's experiences common for slaves at this time?
8. What is significant about the animal imagery that is seen in Chapter 3?
9. 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?
10. What is the significance of John's scars when he first appears? Why do you think Waller chose John despite those scars?
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