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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Sarny enjoy doing every evening after the slaves eat?
(a) Drawing pictures in the sand in the chicken shed.
(b) Singing songs that she learned in church.
(c) Laying in bed thinking about what she's learned.
(d) Playing a harmonica that she found in town.

2. Why does Mammy pray in the manner that she does?
(a) She is practicing witchcraft.
(b) She is Muslim.
(c) She is worshiping African deities.
(d) Slaves are forbidden to pray.

3. "Partus sequitur ventrem" was a legal doctrine adopted widely into the laws of slavery in the American colonies. What did this law dictate?
(a) That the child of a slave was a slave.
(b) That slaves be forbidden from attending church.
(c) That escaped slaves must be returned to their master.
(d) That slaves were forbidden from reading and writing.

4. What kind of work does Sarny say she is not yet old enough to do on the plantation in Chapter 1?
(a) Yard work.
(b) Gathering eggs.
(c) Helping with the young ones.
(d) Field work.

5. What term refers to the movement to end slavery?
(a) Calvinism.
(b) Suffragism.
(c) Humanism.
(d) Abolitionism.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old is Sarny in Chapter 1?

2. What kind of flowers is Sarny working on in the flower bed in the beginning of Chapter 2?

3. Mammy says in Chapter 1 that Sarny's mother sold for the value of how many field hands?

4. To whom does Mammy pray when Sarny witnesses her in Chapter 2?

5. What does the author assert about the events in the story at the opening of the novel?

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