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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What description best describes the relationship between Sarny and John in the novel?
(a) Brother/sister.
(b) Father/daughter.
(c) Romantic.
(d) Mother/son.

2. What chore does Mammy tell Sarny to do while Mammy is hanging from the spring house in Chapter 5?
(a) To paint the shed.
(b) To water the flowers.
(c) To make breakfast.
(d) To tend to the babies.

3. What is the stump used for that Waller orders one of the field hands to fetch in Chapter 5?
(a) Chopping firewood.
(b) Chopping the heads off chickens.
(c) Hanging slaves.
(d) Painting the house.

4. What does Mammy ask John when she sees him teaching Sarny in Chapter 6?
(a) Can I call the others to look?
(b) Will you teach me too?
(c) What good will that do?
(d) Are you addled in the brain?

5. What tools does Waller order one of the field hands to fetch from the blacksmith lean-to in Chapter 5?
(a) A shovel and a hoe.
(b) A chisel and a hammer.
(c) A branding iron and a horseshoe.
(d) A rake and a baler.

Short Answer Questions

1. What word from Chapter 5 means to faint or lose consciousness?

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

3. What is John's response when Sarny asks him in Chapter 3, "Why they be cutting our thumbs off if we learn to read--if that's all it is?"

4. What is the name of Mrs. Waller's sister?

5. Mammy tells John in Chapter 6, "you are born to" what?

(see the answer key)

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