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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How long does Mammy suggest that John wait before running in order to heal in Chapter 6?
(a) A year.
(b) A month.
(c) A week.
(d) Two weeks.

2. How does Sarny describe Alice's mental state in the beginning of Chapter 4?
(a) She was deaf and dumb.
(b) She was quiet but had seizures.
(c) She was addled in the head.
(d) She was mentally strong.

3. What word from Chapter 4 refers to a noisy or disorderly group or gathering?
(a) Calabash.
(b) Promenade.
(c) Gaggle.
(d) Menagerie.

4. How many slaves are estimated to have escaped to freedom in American History?
(a) Half a million.
(b) Two million.
(c) One million.
(d) Sixty thousand.

5. By what order does John teach Sarny to learn letters?
(a) Write the letter in upper, then lower-case.
(b) Make the sound, then the letter.
(c) Write the letter, and say a word with that letter.
(d) Write the letter, then write it in cursive.

6. What does Waller order the field hands to do when he is finished punishing John in Chapter 5?
(a) Get some boiled water and dip it in that.
(b) Carry his body to the field and bury it.
(c) Get a rag and some grease on that.
(d) Rub salt into his wounds.

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

8. 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 let her work in the fields.
(c) He shot her.
(d) He sold her.

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

10. What does Mammy do when she first sees John teaching Sarny the letters of the alphabet in Chapter 4?
(a) She calls the other slaves to watch.
(b) She laughs at him.
(c) She runs and tells Mr. Waller.
(d) She hits him over the head.

11. What emotion does John's story about his past inspire in Mammy in Chapter 4?
(a) Rage.
(b) Humiliation.
(c) Disdain.
(d) Hope.

12. What does Waller say the punishment is "according to the law" for learning to read or write in Chapter 5?
(a) Castration.
(b) Removal of an extremity.
(c) Hanging.
(d) A prison sentence of five years.

13. What chore does Mammy tell Sarny to do while Mammy is hanging from the spring house in Chapter 5?
(a) To paint the shed.
(b) To tend to the babies.
(c) To water the flowers.
(d) To make breakfast.

14. When John steps forward in Chapter 5, the narrator says, "Waller looked down at him the way a cat looks at a mouse caught in a corner." What literary device is used in this sentence?
(a) Onomatopoeia.
(b) Simile.
(c) Alliteration.
(d) Biblical allusion.

15. Where does Waller spend the day while Mammy is shackled to the spring house in Chapter 5?
(a) In the white house.
(b) In the fields.
(c) At church.
(d) At a party.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. For how long does Sarny say that John is incapacitated after his punishment from Waller in the beginning of Chapter 6?

4. What does Mammy ask John when she sees him teaching Sarny in Chapter 6?

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

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