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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 does Mammy tell Sarny to bring to her at the spring house when the master and others aren't looking in Chapter 5?
(a) Water.
(b) A gun.
(c) Food.
(d) A knife.

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

3. When was the first Fugitive Slave Act implemented in the United States requiring all escaped slaves to be returned to their masters?
(a) 1856.
(b) 1793.
(c) 1776.
(d) 1865.

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) Tobacco to put on her wounds.
(b) Water to drink.
(c) Clothing to cover herself.
(d) Whiskey to drink.

5. What does Mammy ask John when she sees him teaching Sarny in Chapter 6?
(a) Can I call the others to look?
(b) Are you addled in the brain?
(c) What good will that do?
(d) Will you teach me too?

Short Answer Questions

1. What sounds does John make while enduring Waller's punishment in Chapter 5?

2. Who were the people that captured John after he'd fled?

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

4. What does Waller order the field hands to do when he is finished punishing John in Chapter 5?

5. What does Master Waller do when he finds Alice after she's run in Chapter 4?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How has the relationship between Mammy and John evolved by Chapter 6?

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

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

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

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

7. Why do you think it is important for John to teach the slaves to read and write as opposed to teaching them other information?

8. What is foreshadowed in Chapter 6? What does the reader expect to happen based on John's actions?

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

10. What element of the novel's plot structure is seen in Chapter 5?

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