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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What kind of work does Sarny say she is not yet old enough to do on the plantation in Chapter 1?
(a) Helping with the young ones.
(b) Field work.
(c) Yard work.
(d) Gathering eggs.

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

3. What substance does Sarny treat the flowers with in Chapter 2?
(a) Tobacco juice.
(b) Chemical pesticide.
(c) Bubblegum.
(d) Turpentine.

4. What had Mammy done when Sarny copied the letters from the feed sack in the dirt when she was younger?
(a) She smacked her.
(b) She told Waller.
(c) She praised her.
(d) She laughed.

5. What is foreshadowed by Sarny's story about finding the coin in the dirt in Chapter 2?
(a) Sarny's eventual wealth.
(b) Sarny's marriage.
(c) Sarny's death.
(d) Sarny's education.

6. What word from Chapter 3 refers to a ring or fastening of iron or wood used for securing the wrist, ankle, etc.?
(a) Chattel.
(b) Vestibule.
(c) Shackle.
(d) Promontory.

7. What does John offer to trade with the slaves in the sleeping quarters on his first night in Chapter 3?
(a) Soup.
(b) Letters.
(c) Songs.
(d) Prayers.

8. Where has Sarny observed people reading prior to meeting John?
(a) In town.
(b) In the white house.
(c) At the slave market.
(d) At church.

9. What has caused some of the leaves to fall off of the flowers that Sarny is tending in the flower garden in Chapter 2?
(a) Under-watering.
(b) Little green bugs.
(c) Over-watering.
(d) Chemical pesticides.

10. From what device do Sarny and the other slaves eat their meals at the plantation?
(a) From a grill.
(b) From a long table.
(c) From a trough.
(d) From a cauldron.

11. What substance does Sarny equate the color of her skin with in Chapter 3?
(a) Coffee.
(b) Molasses.
(c) Sassafras tea.
(d) Brown sugar.

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

13. How would you describe the treatment of the slaves on Waller's plantation?
(a) The slaves are treated like kings.
(b) The slaves are treated compassionately.
(c) The slaves are treated like animals.
(d) The slaves are treated like treasured valuables.

14. How old is Sarny in Chapter 1?
(a) 12.
(b) 15.
(c) 10.
(d) 8.

15. How does Mammy notate the ages of the slave children that she raises?
(a) By scratching marks on the floor.
(b) By collecting pebbles in a jar.
(c) By marking notches on sticks.
(d) By putting stakes in the ground.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. What euphemism does Sarny use to describe menstruation in Chapter 1?

3. Sarny states at the end of Chapter 2 that she knows the "people in the white house aren't richer" than whom?

4. In what year did the United States Congress pass a Slave Trade Act which prohibited the building or outfitting of ships in the U.S. for use in the slave trade?

5. What does Sarny compare the color of John's skin with in Chapter 3?

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