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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of Mrs. Waller's sister?
(a) Margaret.
(b) Alice.
(c) Mary.
(d) Alaine.

2. What does Sarny say her last name is in Chapter 1?
(a) Thomas.
(b) Smith.
(c) Waller.
(d) Freeman.

3. 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) Witches and warlocks.
(b) The kind and queen of the castle.
(c) Dog droppings or horse crap.
(d) The perpetrator of evil.

4. What kind of flowers is Sarny working on in the flower bed in the beginning of Chapter 2?
(a) Roses.
(b) Daffodils.
(c) Crocuses.
(d) Pansies.

5. What substance does Sarny treat the flowers with in Chapter 2?
(a) Tobacco juice.
(b) Chemical pesticide.
(c) Turpentine.
(d) Bubblegum.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did the U.S. Congress outlaw the importation of slaves?

2. In Chapter 1, Sarny says that some believed she brought Nightjohn to the plantation by what manner?

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. Sarny states at the end of Chapter 2 that she knows the "people in the white house aren't richer" than whom?

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

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