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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What term refers to efforts toward procuring economic and social rights, political rights or equality, often for a specifically disenfranchised group?
(a) Eclecticism.
(b) Emancipation.
(c) Suffragism.
(d) Abolition.

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

3. What does Mammy tell Sarny to bring to her at the spring house when the master and others aren't looking in Chapter 5?
(a) A knife.
(b) A gun.
(c) Water.
(d) Food.

4. What word from Chapter 3 refers to a person who manages slaves on a plantation?
(a) Dunce.
(b) Maestro.
(c) Vestibule.
(d) Overseer.

5. How many slaves are estimated to have escaped to freedom in American History?
(a) Half a million.
(b) One million.
(c) Two million.
(d) Sixty thousand.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Waller order the field hands to do when he is finished punishing John in Chapter 5?

2. What European country was the first to engage in the New World slave trade?

3. Where are the flower beds described that Sarny tends from time to time in Chapter 1?

4. What substance does Sarny equate the color of her skin with in Chapter 3?

5. What did Sarny do with the coin that she found after showing it to Mammy?

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