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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where has Sarny observed people reading prior to meeting John?
(a) At church.
(b) In town.
(c) At the slave market.
(d) In the white house.

2. What derogatory name does John refer to Master Waller as when Sarny tells him about Mammy in Chapter 5?
(a) Ogre.
(b) Bastard.
(c) Cracker.
(d) Horse's ass.

3. What word from Chapter 5 means to faint or lose consciousness?
(a) Swoon.
(b) Incur.
(c) Conjecture.
(d) Careen.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What word from Chapter 6 means to limp?

2. Sarny compares the sound of "the north" to listening to what sounds in Chapter 4?

3. What chore does Mammy tell Sarny to do while Mammy is hanging from the spring house in Chapter 5?

4. What has caused some of the leaves to fall off of the flowers that Sarny is tending in the flower garden in Chapter 2?

5. What is foreshadowed by Sarny's story about finding the coin in the dirt in Chapter 2?

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