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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. What place does Sarny describe in the end of Chapter 5?
(a) Heaven.
(b) The cemetery.
(c) Hell.
(d) The North.
2. What does John say to Sarny before he leaves in Chapter 6?
(a) That she should come with him.
(b) That he wishes her a good life.
(c) That he is going to kill Waller.
(d) That he will be back.
3. What is Mammy doing when Sarny runs to her as she tries to escape Waller in Chapter 5?
(a) Working in the fields.
(b) Tending the flower bed.
(c) Tending Alice's wounds.
(d) Cooking breakfast.
4. What does Mammy tell Sarny to bring to her as she makes her way to the slave quarters in the end of Chapter 5?
(a) Whiskey to drink.
(b) Tobacco to put on her wounds.
(c) Water to drink.
(d) Clothing to cover herself.
5. What creatures does Mammy remark upon when Sarny runs to her at the spring house in Chapter 5?
(a) The bees.
(b) The birds.
(c) Waller's dogs.
(d) The cats.
Short Answer Questions
1. What question does Sarny always ask about the letters of the alphabet when John introduces them to her?
2. What chore does Mammy tell Sarny to do while Mammy is hanging from the spring house in Chapter 5?
3. What word from Chapter 5 refers to the act of writing or marking carelessly?
4. What word from Chapter 5 means to faint or lose consciousness?
5. What derogatory name does John refer to Master Waller as when Sarny tells him about Mammy in Chapter 5?
Short Essay Questions
1. What happens after Alice's whipping in Chapter 4? How are Alice's wounds treated?
2. 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?
3. How does Mammy respond when Sarny runs to her at the spring house in Chapter 5?
4. How has the relationship between Mammy and John evolved by Chapter 6?
5. How does Sarny describe the circumstances of the slaves in the beginning of Chapter 5?
6. What is the significance of Master Waller's public displays of punishment for the slaves in the novel?
7. How was Pawley's disappearance discovered by Waller, according to Sarny in Chapter 4? Why was Pawley off the plantation?
8. How is John's departure described in Chapter 6? What does Sarny make of John's farewell?
9. What is foreshadowed in Chapter 6? What does the reader expect to happen based on John's actions?
10. What does John teach Sarny in Chapter 6? How does Mammy respond when she observes this exchange?
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