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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Sarny describe Mrs. Waller's sister in Chapter 2?
(a) Proud and beautiful.
(b) Gentle and kind.
(c) Soft spoken and meek.
(d) Dried up and mean.

2. What European country was the first to engage in the New World slave trade?
(a) Portugal.
(b) Spain.
(c) Great Britain.
(d) France.

3. What does the author assert about the events in the story at the opening of the novel?
(a) The events in the story are loosely based on events that occurred in Cleveland, Mississippi, in 1861.
(b) The events in the story are satirical.
(c) The events in the story are purely from the imagination of the author and not based on any historical people.
(d) The events are true except for variation in time and character identification.

4. What does Sarny say that the slaves call the master and mistress when they are in the slave quarters and out of hearing in Chapter 2?
(a) The perpetrator of evil.
(b) The kind and queen of the castle.
(c) Dog droppings or horse crap.
(d) Witches and warlocks.

5. Where are the flower beds described that Sarny tends from time to time in Chapter 1?
(a) Below the big window on the white house.
(b) In the front entrance to the slave quarters.
(c) By the roadside under the elm tree.
(d) In the back garden of the slave quarters.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Sarny remark about her birth in Chapter 1?

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

3. "Partus sequitur ventrem" was a legal doctrine adopted widely into the laws of slavery in the American colonies. What did this law dictate?

4. How old was Sarny when her birth mother was sold?

5. Where does Sarny say she was when she first heard about Nightjohn in Chapter 1?

(see the answer key)

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