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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was the first Fugitive Slave Act implemented in the United States requiring all escaped slaves to be returned to their masters?
(a) 1793.
(b) 1865.
(c) 1856.
(d) 1776.

2. Mammy tells John in Chapter 6, "you are born to" what?
(a) Be free.
(b) Leave.
(c) Teach.
(d) Love.

3. 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) Get a rag and some grease on that.
(c) Rub salt into his wounds.
(d) Carry his body to the field and bury it.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Mammy tell Sarny to bring to her at the spring house when the master and others aren't looking in Chapter 5?

3. What does Mammy make for Alice to drink after tending her wounds in Chapter 4?

4. What does Mammy do after John explains the reasoning behind his motives in Chapter 4?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What is foreshadowed by Alice's treatment and abuse from Waller in Chapter 4?

2. How does Mammy respond when Sarny runs to her at the spring house in Chapter 5?

3. What is foreshadowed in Chapter 6? What does the reader expect to happen based on John's actions?

4. What instructions does Mammy give to Sarny while she's at the spring house in Chapter 5?

5. How has the relationship between Mammy and John evolved by Chapter 6?

6. What is the significance of Master Waller's public displays of punishment for the slaves in the novel?

7. What are Sarny's perceptions of Alice's whipping when she witnesses it in Chapter 4?

8. How was Pawley's disappearance discovered by Waller, according to Sarny in Chapter 4? Why was Pawley off the plantation?

9. How is Alice described in the beginning of Chapter 4? What is Sarny's relationship like with Alice?

10. Sarny describes two slaves that she has heard of that ran away from Waller's plantation in Chapter 4. What story is related of Jim's attempted escape?

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