View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What must the slaves do whenever someone is punished at the spring house?
(a) Kneel and look away.
(b) Stand and watch.
(c) Pray.
(d) Plow the fields.

2. Where does Waller kick Sarny when he finds her writing in Chapter 5?
(a) In the groin.
(b) In the head.
(c) In the stomach.
(d) In the leg.

3. What does Mammy assert that reading and writing will bring for the slaves in Chapter 4?
(a) A path to freedom.
(b) Grief.
(c) A record of history.
(d) Hope.

4. What does Sarny enjoy doing every evening after the slaves eat?
(a) Singing songs that she learned in church.
(b) Laying in bed thinking about what she's learned.
(c) Playing a harmonica that she found in town.
(d) Drawing pictures in the sand in the chicken shed.

5. Why does Sarny say the slaves all know not to run in Chapter 4?
(a) Because it is wrong.
(b) Because they love the master.
(c) Because there is nowhere to run to.
(d) Because nobody ever gets away.

Short Answer Questions

1. In whose memory is Nightjohn dedicated by the author in the opening pages?

2. What material is the spring house made of at the plantation?

3. When Sarny overhears the mistress of the plantation in Chapter 2, the mistress is complaining that her husband spends too much money buying slaves. What is she concerned that she will not have enough money to purchase due to her husband's overspending?

4. What creatures does Mammy remark upon when Sarny runs to her at the spring house in Chapter 5?

5. Sarny says of Mammy in Chapter 2, "She swore they could hear like cats up to the big house..." What literary device is used in this example?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 297 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample