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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. Who were the people that captured John after he'd fled?
(a) Cotton traders.
(b) Country lawmen.
(c) Bear hunters.
(d) Bounty hunters.

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

3. What does Mammy tell Sarny to fetch as John is taken to the slave quarters after his punishment in Chapter 5?
(a) Salt.
(b) Boiling water.
(c) Bacon.
(d) Cornbread.

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) Cooking breakfast.
(c) Working in the fields.
(d) Tending Alice's wounds.

5. What does Sarny make of John's departing statement in the end of Chapter 6?
(a) She believes he is just being hopeful.
(b) She believes he is telling the truth.
(c) She believes he is lying.
(d) She believes he is joking.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mammy assert that reading and writing will bring for the slaves in Chapter 4?

2. Sarny says in Chapter 5 that "They say if you can" do what that "you can work"?

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

4. What tools does Waller order one of the field hands to fetch from the blacksmith lean-to in Chapter 5?

5. What does Mammy tell Sarny to bring to her at the spring house when the master and others aren't looking in Chapter 5?

Short Essay Questions

1. What instructions does Mammy give to Sarny while she's at the spring house in Chapter 5?

2. What is the significance of Master Waller's public displays of punishment for the slaves in the novel?

3. Sarny describes two slaves that she has heard of that ran away from Waller's plantation in Chapter 4. What story is related of Jim's attempted escape?

4. How does Mammy respond when Sarny runs to her at the spring house in Chapter 5?

5. How does Sarny describe the circumstances of the slaves in the beginning of Chapter 5?

6. How is John's departure described in Chapter 6? What does Sarny make of John's farewell?

7. How does Sarny describe the first day of John's recovery in Chapter 6?

8. What does John teach Sarny in Chapter 6? How does Mammy respond when she observes this exchange?

9. What causes Master Waller to send Old Delie to the spring house in Chapter 5?

10. What leads up to Alice being being whipped by Waller in Chapter 4? How is her whipping described?

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