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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Sarny compares the sound of "the north" to listening to what sounds in Chapter 4?
(a) Distant thunder at night.
(b) Cars and train whistles.
(c) Wolves and dogs howling.
(d) Birds singing or wind in the trees.

4. How far does Sarny say Alice made it before she was caught in Chapter 4?
(a) To the train station in town.
(b) The other end of the cotton fields.
(c) Halfway to Pennsylvania.
(d) To the door of the sleeping quarters.

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

6. 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) Water.
(d) A knife.

7. How many letters of the alphabet has Sarny learned at the beginning of Chapter 5?
(a) 3.
(b) 5.
(c) 10.
(d) 7.

8. Where does John say he was when he was caught in Chapter 4?
(a) In Boston.
(b) In church.
(c) In the woods.
(d) Hiding in a cotton field.

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

10. What did the master do to Pawley for punishment after he was caught?
(a) He cut off his toes.
(b) He hung him.
(c) He castrated him.
(d) He shot him.

11. What description best describes the relationship between Sarny and John in the novel?
(a) Romantic.
(b) Mother/son.
(c) Father/daughter.
(d) Brother/sister.

12. 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) Simile.
(b) Biblical allusion.
(c) Alliteration.
(d) Onomatopoeia.

13. When did Abraham Lincoln issue the Emancipation Proclamation proclaiming the freedom of slaves in the ten states that were still in rebellion?
(a) 1863.
(b) 1902.
(c) 1795.
(d) 1800.

14. What is "the next letter" that John introduces to Sarny on the second night of his recovery in Chapter 6?
(a) H.
(b) J.
(c) R.
(d) L.

15. What name refers to a network of secret routes and safe houses used by slaves in the United States to escape to free states and Canada?
(a) The Underground Railroad.
(b) The Freedom Train.
(c) The African Resistance.
(d) The Marked Passage.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Sarny make of John's departing statement in the end of Chapter 6?

2. John tells Mammy in Chapter 6, "I don't get smarter. Just" what?

3. Where does Waller spend the day while Mammy is shackled to the spring house in Chapter 5?

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

5. How long does Sarny say it took Waller and his dogs to catch Jim when he ran in Chapter 4?

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