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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How does Mammy notate the ages of the slave children that she raises?
(a) By marking notches on sticks.
(b) By putting stakes in the ground.
(c) By scratching marks on the floor.
(d) By collecting pebbles in a jar.

3. What does Sarny recall Mammy telling her to do with the coin that she found in the dirt in Chapter 2?
(a) To spend it.
(b) To give it to the master.
(c) To hide it.
(d) To give it to her.

4. Sarny states at the end of Chapter 2 that she knows the "people in the white house aren't richer" than whom?
(a) Mammy.
(b) God.
(c) My father.
(d) The President.

5. What does John offer to trade with the slaves in the sleeping quarters on his first night in Chapter 3?
(a) Letters.
(b) Prayers.
(c) Songs.
(d) Soup.

Short Answer Questions

1. What euphemism does Sarny use to describe menstruation in Chapter 1?

2. Where has Sarny observed people reading prior to meeting John?

3. What reason does John give for returning to slavery after he'd achieved freedom in Chapter 4?

4. Why does mammy say Sarny's birth mother was sold in Chapter 1?

5. Why does Sarny say the slaves all know not to run in Chapter 4?

(see the answer key)

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