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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 81-90.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the first job Kunta is given after he begins his recovery?
(a) Carrying firewood and water
(b) Working the fields
(c) Gardening
(d) Mending fences

2. What does the master leave each time he comes to Kizzy's bed?
(a) Extra food
(b) A coin
(c) Nothing
(d) A trinket

3. Why are battles begun late in the day?
(a) Because Allah is with the attackers at that time of day.
(b) So that the battle could not go on too long.
(c) So that the attackers could use the setting sun to confuse the enemy.
(d) So that the losing enemy could save face by retreating into the darkness.

4. What is it that the slave named Noah tells Kunta that he plans to do?
(a) Try to make money like Fiddler
(b) Ask Kizzy to marry him
(c) Run away
(d) Be a driver like Kunta

5. What does Mingo say was the nickname given to the girl he slipped off to see as a young man?
(a) Blacksnake
(b) Brown Sugar
(c) Blue Eyes
(d) Black Beauty

Short Answer Questions

1. How is Kunta told that a griot learns his skill?

2. What is the job of Mingo?

3. What is the instrument Kunta hears being played by an African slave owned by the father of Kunta's master?

4. What order is given to the young boy who continually talks when he should be silent?

5. Why does Kizzy not offer to teach her son to read and write?

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