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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What question does Sarny always ask about the letters of the alphabet when John introduces them to her?
(a) What it feels like.
(b) Where the bottom is.
(c) Where the top is.
(d) What words it makes.

3. What word from Chapter 5 refers to the act of writing or marking carelessly?
(a) Scrambling.
(b) Muttering.
(c) Scribbling.
(d) Pondering.

4. 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) Food.
(b) A gun.
(c) A knife.
(d) Water.

5. What is the first word that Sarny learns to write in Chapter 5?
(a) CAT.
(b) APPLE.
(c) BAG.
(d) DOG.

6. What does Sarny say the master did when Alice was unwilling in the breeding shed in Chapter 4?
(a) He had her tied down and raped.
(b) He sold her.
(c) He shot her.
(d) He let her work in the fields.

7. What does Mammy do after John explains the reasoning behind his motives in Chapter 4?
(a) She hits John again.
(b) She returns to bed.
(c) She starts to cry.
(d) She calls for the master.

8. What word from Chapter 6 means to limp?
(a) Scribble.
(b) Hobble.
(c) Enchant.
(d) Bramble.

9. What is Mammy doing when Sarny runs to her as she tries to escape Waller in Chapter 5?
(a) Working in the fields.
(b) Tending Alice's wounds.
(c) Cooking breakfast.
(d) Tending the flower bed.

10. What color does Sarny describe Waller's dogs as in Chapter 4?
(a) Black.
(b) Gray.
(c) Red.
(d) Yellow.

11. What does John say to Sarny before he leaves in Chapter 6?
(a) That he wishes her a good life.
(b) That he will be back.
(c) That she should come with him.
(d) That he is going to kill Waller.

12. Who is awake in the sleeping quarters when John escapes in Chapter 6?
(a) Alice, Sarny and John.
(b) Mammy and John.
(c) Mammy, Sarny, and John.
(d) John and Sarny.

13. What is the last letter that John introduces Sarny to in Chapter 4?
(a) D.
(b) C.
(c) F.
(d) B.

14. Why does John assert that the slaves must all learn to read and write in Chapter 4?
(a) To read catalogs and order things.
(b) To write novels and buy their freedom.
(c) To write about what is being done to them.
(d) To read and understand the Bible.

15. What does Mammy make for Alice to drink after tending her wounds in Chapter 4?
(a) Root tea.
(b) Coffee.
(c) Whiskey and water.
(d) Molasses tea.

Short Answer Questions

1. What word from Chapter 5 means to faint or lose consciousness?

2. Where did Pawley find a girl he liked, according to Sarny's story in Chapter 4?

3. How many letters of the alphabet has Sarny learned at the beginning of Chapter 5?

4. What does Mammy tell Sarny to prepare to treat her wounds after she is whipped in Chapter 5?

5. What is the stump used for that Waller orders one of the field hands to fetch in Chapter 5?

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