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Complete the Chapter questions on the book Nightjohn. Make sure your
answers are in RED. Email to be when you have completed the book and
questions.
Nightjohn Chapter 1
1. Who is telling the story?
2. Is the narrator a boy or a girl?
3. Is the narrator white or black? How do you know?
4. How old is the narrator? How do they know?
5. Does she live with her mother?
6. Why not?
7. What is a breeder?
8. What are the troubles?
9. Who is the slave owner or master?
Nightjohn Chapter 2
1. How much did they pay for Night John?
2. Where does Mammy pray?
3. Are the slaves supposed to pray?
4. What does she pray for?
Nightjohn Chapter 3
1. What is Night Johns condition when he comes in? Details
2. What do all the marks on Night Johns body tell you about him?
3. How does Sarny describe Night John’s skin color?
4. Does Waller let Night John rest or have a drink before he puts him to work?
5. How many times a day do the slaves eat? How are they fed? How do they eat lunch?
6. How are they made to use the restroom?
7. At night what does Night John ask for? Who has some? What happens next?
8. Why do the whites keep the slaves from learning to read or write?
Nightjohn Chapter 4
1. What happened to Alice?
2. When Night John is teaching Sarny what is Mammy’s initial reaction?
3. What interesting fact about his life does Night John share with Sarny and Mammy?
4. Why did he come back?
5. Why is teaching people to read and write so important to Night John? What passage from the reading illustrates
this best?
6. Does Mammy allow Night John to continue teaching Sarny? Why?
Nightjohn Chapter 5
1. What is the first word Sarny puts together?
2. What “trouble” comes from that word? Explain
3. Does Waller punish Sarny?
4. What does he make Mammy do?
5. Who speaks up? What do they say?
6. What happens to Night John?
Nightjohn Chapter 6
1. After Night John rests for three nights he calls Sarny over… what for?
2. What does Night John say his plans are?
Nightjohn Chapter 7
1. Why is Sarny in a misery?
2. Who shows up in the dark?
3. Where are they going?
4. What happens?