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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. How many slaves are estimated to have escaped to freedom in American History?
(a) Sixty thousand.
(b) Half a million.
(c) Two million.
(d) One million.

2. What description best describes the relationship between Sarny and John in the novel?
(a) Romantic.
(b) Brother/sister.
(c) Mother/son.
(d) Father/daughter.

3. Who is awake in the sleeping quarters when John escapes in Chapter 6?
(a) John and Sarny.
(b) Mammy and John.
(c) Mammy, Sarny, and John.
(d) Alice, Sarny and John.

4. What does Mammy tell Sarny to prepare to treat her wounds after she is whipped in Chapter 5?
(a) A needle and thread.
(b) Rags and salt.
(c) Lotion and iodine.
(d) Bark and herbs.

5. What color does Sarny describe Waller's dogs as in Chapter 4?
(a) Yellow.
(b) Black.
(c) Red.
(d) Gray.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is "the next letter" that John introduces to Sarny on the second night of his recovery in Chapter 6?

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

3. What does Master Waller order Mammy to do after he has whipped Alice at the spring house in Chapter 4?

4. What does Waller say the punishment is "according to the law" for learning to read or write in Chapter 5?

5. What does John make shoes from before he runs away in Chapter 6?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is foreshadowed by Alice's treatment and abuse from Waller in Chapter 4?

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

3. How does John describe his plans for escape to Mammy and Sarny in Chapter 6?

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

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

6. How is Alice described in the beginning of Chapter 4? What is Sarny's relationship like with Alice?

7. How was Pawley's disappearance discovered by Waller, according to Sarny in Chapter 4? Why was Pawley off the plantation?

8. How did Pawley die, according to the story related from Sarny in Chapter 4?

9. 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?

10. What are Sarny's perceptions of Alice's whipping when she witnesses it in Chapter 4?

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