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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 61-70.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Kunta wearing when he wakes after his attack?
(a) Only a loincloth
(b) Nothing
(c) White man's clothing
(d) His own bloodied clothes

2. What do Kunta and Lamin have when they return to Juffure?
(a) A panther hide
(b) A collection of elephant tusks
(c) Enough gold to buy a cow
(d) Seeds for new crops

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 losing enemy could save face by retreating into the darkness.
(c) So that the battle could not go on too long.
(d) So that the attackers could use the setting sun to confuse the enemy.

4. How is Bell getting information about the uprising against England?
(a) News comes from slaves of other plantations.
(b) She finds documents left by the master
(c) The master is talking to her.
(d) She listens in on conversations whenever there is company.

5. Why does Kunta hate the task of carrying Bell's basket of vegetables when she first begins asking him to do it?
(a) The women in Africa carry their own.
(b) It interrupts his own work.
(c) He fears going into the big house.
(d) He doesn't want to interact with anyone.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the disease that runs quickly through the hold of the ship, claiming many lives?

2. What is the fate of a boy who fails the manhood training?

3. What does Kunta learn is the reason that Fiddler is no longer playing for the slaves?

4. How does Kunta know he and his mates are approaching a freshly cut bamboo grove?

5. What color does Binta dye her new cotton for the family's clothing?

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