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- I began to exist in the year 1844, in a small town in Tennessee, Eden.
- There were no more than four hundred people there, including the slaves.
- I was the personal property of Mr. Jennings, who was a well-polished
- southern man. He was portly in build, lively in step, and dignified in
- manner. Mr. Jennings was a good man. There was no disputing that.
- Master Jennings had a small farm. We did not cultivate any cotton; we
- raised corn, oats, hay and fruits. Most of Master Jennings' slaves were
- hired out.
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- 1. The person relating this incident was
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- A. a member of the Jennings family
- B. a slave
- C. a freeman
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- B
- Correct.
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- B
- (B) The narrator was a slave.
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- My mother certainly had her faults as a slave. Ma fussed, fought,
- and kicked all the time. I tell you, she was a demon. She said she
- wouldn't be whipped, and when she fussed, all Eden must have known it.
- She was loud and boisterous, and it seemed to me that you could hear her a
- mile away. Father was often the prey of her high temper. With all her
- ability for work, she did not make a good slave. She was too high-
- spirited and independent.
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- 1. According to this passage, the mother was not a good slave for
- all of the following reasons EXCEPT
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- A. she was loud
- B. she was lazy
- C. she fought
- D. she had a temper
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- C
- Correct.
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- C
- (B) She was not lazy.
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- C
- I was the oldest child. My mother had three children by the time
- I was six years old. It was at this age that I remember the almost daily
- talks of my mother on the cruelty of slavery. I would say nothing to her,
- but I was thinking all the time that slavery did not seem so cruel.
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- 1. The child's mother
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- A. was ashamed to be a slave
- B. was glad her children were not slaves
- C. felt the child did not understand slavery
- D. wanted her children to be good slaves
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- D
- Correct.
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- D
- (C) The mother wanted the child to realize how cruel slavery really was.
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- D
- One day my mother's temper ran wild. For some reason Mistress
- Jennings struck her with a stick. Ma struck back and a fight followed.
- I have never been able to figure out the why of the whole thing. My mother
- was in a rage for two days, and when Pa asked her about it and told her
- that she shouldn't have done it. Pa heard Mr. Jennings say that Fannie
- would have to be whipped by law. He told Ma. Two mornings afterwards, two
- men came in at the big gate, one with a long lash in his hand. I was in the
- yard and I hoped they couldn't find Ma.
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- 1. The cause of the mother's rage was
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- A. Mistress Jennings' temper
- B. never clear to the child
- C. her husband
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- E
- Correct.
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- E
- (B) The child never knew why her mother had gone into a rage.
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- To my surprise, I saw her running around the house, straight in the
- direction of the men. She must have seen them coming. I should have
- known that she wouldn't hide. She knew what they were coming for, and she
- intended to meet them halfway. She swooped upon them like a hawk on
- chickens. I believe they were afraid of her or thought she was crazy.
- Mr. Jennings came and pulled her away. I don't know what would have
- happened if he hadn't come at that moment, for one man had already pulled
- his gun out.
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- 1. Fannie ran toward the two men
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- A. to protect her mother
- B. to frighten them away
- C. because she refused to be whipped but knew she couldn't hide from them
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- F
- Correct.
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- F
- (C) She couldn't hide, but she refused to be whipped.
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- That evening Mistress Jennings came down to the cabin. She stopped
- at the door and called my mother. Ma came out.
- "Well Fannie," she said, "I'll have to send you away. You won't be
- whipped, and I'm afraid you'll get killed. They have to knock you down
- like a beef."
- "I'll go to hell or anywhere else, but I won't be whipped."
- "You can't take the baby, Fannie."
- My mother said nothing at this. About a week later, she told me
- that she and Pa were going to leave the next day, that they were going to
- Memphis. She didn't know for how long.
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- 1. Fannie could not take the baby because it was the property of the
- Jennings.
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- A. True
- B. False
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- a
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- G
- Correct.
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- G
- (A) The baby was the Jennings' property.
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- Thus my mother and father were hired to Tennessee. Yes, Ma had been
- right. Slavery was chuck full of cruelty and abuse. During this time I
- decided to follow my mother's example. I intended to fight, and if I
- couldn't fight, I'd kick; and if I couldn't kick, I'd bite.
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- 1. This passage, "My mother Was the Smartest Black Women in Eden," is so
- titled because the mother always told her daughter that slavery was cruel.
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- A. True
- B. False
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- H
- Correct.
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- H
- (A) She taught her that slavery was cruel.
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