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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is the name of Mrs. Waller's sister?
(a) Margaret.
(b) Alaine.
(c) Alice.
(d) Mary.

3. What euphemism does Sarny use to describe menstruation in Chapter 1?
(a) Aunt Mary.
(b) Womanhood.
(c) The trouble.
(d) The spots.

4. Sarny states at the end of Chapter 2 that she knows the "people in the white house aren't richer" than whom?
(a) God.
(b) The President.
(c) My father.
(d) Mammy.

5. What kind of flowers is Sarny working on in the flower bed in the beginning of Chapter 2?
(a) Roses.
(b) Crocuses.
(c) Daffodils.
(d) Pansies.

Short Answer Questions

1. What tools does Waller order one of the field hands to fetch from the blacksmith lean-to in Chapter 5?

2. What does John say to Sarny before he leaves in Chapter 6?

3. What does Master Waller order Mammy to do after he has whipped Alice at the spring house in Chapter 4?

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

5. In the end of Chapter 6, Sarny says that John won't be coming back unless what happens?

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