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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 Master Waller do when he finds Alice after she's run in Chapter 4?
(a) He hangs her on the spring house.
(b) He hangs her.
(c) He shoots her.
(d) He lets the dogs attack her.

2. What material is the spring house made of at the plantation?
(a) Wood.
(b) Tin.
(c) Stone.
(d) Adobe.

3. When John steps forward in Chapter 5, the narrator says, "Waller looked down at him the way a cat looks at a mouse caught in a corner." What literary device is used in this sentence?
(a) Onomatopoeia.
(b) Simile.
(c) Biblical allusion.
(d) Alliteration.

4. What does Mammy do after John explains the reasoning behind his motives in Chapter 4?
(a) She hits John again.
(b) She starts to cry.
(c) She calls for the master.
(d) She returns to bed.

5. By what order does John teach Sarny to learn letters?
(a) Write the letter in upper, then lower-case.
(b) Write the letter, and say a word with that letter.
(c) Make the sound, then the letter.
(d) Write the letter, then write it in cursive.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mammy ask John when she sees him teaching Sarny in Chapter 6?

2. How many letters of the alphabet has Sarny learned at the beginning of Chapter 5?

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

4. What creatures does Mammy remark upon when Sarny runs to her at the spring house in Chapter 5?

5. What does Mammy tell Sarny to prepare to treat her wounds after she is whipped in Chapter 5?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Master Waller punish Mammy in Chapter 5? How do the other slaves respond to the abuse?

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

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

4. How does Waller discover that Sarny is learning to read and write in Chapter 5? How does he react?

5. How does the relationship between Mammy and John change after John explains his past in Chapter 4?

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

7. How does Master Waller punish John after he has stepped forward in Chapter 5? How does John respond to his punishment?

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

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

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

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