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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What historical figure "owned, raised, and subsequently used" the slave that the novel is dedicated to by the author?
(a) Theodore Roosevelt.
(b) Benjamin Franklin.
(c) Robert E. Lee.
(d) Thomas Jefferson.

2. 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) The perpetrator of evil.
(d) Dog droppings or horse crap.

3. In Chapter 1, Sarny says that some believed she brought Nightjohn to the plantation by what manner?
(a) Train.
(b) Acting intelligent.
(c) Witchery.
(d) Begging the master.

4. What does Sarny remark about her birth in Chapter 1?
(a) She was born blind.
(b) She was born deaf.
(c) She was born premature.
(d) She came out backwards.

5. What is the name of the slave that raises Sarny?
(a) Alaine.
(b) Alice.
(c) Margaret.
(d) Old Delie.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. How old is Sarny in Chapter 1?

5. How does Sarny describe the financial circumstances of the master's family in Chapter 2?

(see the answer key)

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