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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What does Sarny think about when she finally lays down in bed at the end of Chapter 3?
(a) Mrs. Waller's dog.
(b) The letter A.
(c) Her father.
(d) Her mother.
2. By current estimates, approximately how many Africans were shipped across the Atlantic during the slave trade?
(a) 7 million.
(b) 12 million.
(c) 20 million.
(d) 5 million.
3. What does Sarny enjoy doing every evening after the slaves eat?
(a) Drawing pictures in the sand in the chicken shed.
(b) Playing a harmonica that she found in town.
(c) Laying in bed thinking about what she's learned.
(d) Singing songs that she learned in church.
4. Why does Mammy pray in the manner that she does?
(a) She is worshiping African deities.
(b) She is practicing witchcraft.
(c) She is Muslim.
(d) Slaves are forbidden to pray.
5. What does Sarny recall Mammy telling her to do with the coin that she found in the dirt in Chapter 2?
(a) To hide it.
(b) To give it to her.
(c) To spend it.
(d) To give it to the master.
6. What kind of flowers is Sarny working on in the flower bed in the beginning of Chapter 2?
(a) Daffodils.
(b) Crocuses.
(c) Roses.
(d) Pansies.
7. What word from Chapter 3 refers to a gourd used for eating or drinking?
(a) Proscenium.
(b) Marigold.
(c) Calabash.
(d) Visor.
8. What is Mrs. Waller's first name?
(a) Alice.
(b) Alaine.
(c) Delie.
(d) Margaret.
9. What substance does Sarny equate the color of her skin with in Chapter 3?
(a) Coffee.
(b) Sassafras tea.
(c) Brown sugar.
(d) Molasses.
10. What kind of coin does Sarny describe finding in the dirt in Chapter 2?
(a) A nickel.
(b) A quarter.
(c) A penny.
(d) A dime.
11. In whose memory is Nightjohn dedicated by the author in the opening pages?
(a) In Harriet Tubman's memory.
(b) In Sally Hemings' memory.
(c) In Frederick Douglass's memory.
(d) In John Brown's memory.
12. 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) Gathering eggs.
(c) Yard work.
(d) Field work.
13. Sarny states at the end of Chapter 2 that she knows the "people in the white house aren't richer" than whom?
(a) The President.
(b) Mammy.
(c) God.
(d) My father.
14. 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?
(a) 1826.
(b) 1739.
(c) 1794.
(d) 1865.
15. What is Mr. Waller's first name?
(a) Horace.
(b) Clel.
(c) Andrew.
(d) Homer.
Short Answer Questions
1. 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?
2. What is the name of Mrs. Waller's sister?
3. "Partus sequitur ventrem" was a legal doctrine adopted widely into the laws of slavery in the American colonies. What did this law dictate?
4. What does John offer to trade with the slaves in the sleeping quarters on his first night in Chapter 3?
5. From what device do Sarny and the other slaves eat their meals at the plantation?
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