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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 31-40.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Omoro say about those who become slaves during a battle against an enemy?
(a) That those men are embittered and will eventually fight again.
(b) That those men weren't brave enough to die.
(c) That those men were honored to serve the men who defeated them.
(d) That those men agreed to be slaves to save their families.

2. What does Kunta learn is the purpose of the trip being taken by the three young men who arrive one day at his village?
(a) They are searching for gold.
(b) They are searching for wives.
(c) They have run away from slavers.
(d) They are looking for Kunta's father.

3. How do the women on the ship relay information to the men?
(a) The women share information while passing out food and water.
(b) They send messages along the lines of the captives.
(c) They pass notes.
(d) They sing it while the men are on deck.

4. What does Kunta know to be the meaning of the frequent howling of women in their huts?
(a) That the woman's family is hungry
(b) That a child is being born
(c) That a husband has taken a new wife
(d) That a loved one has died

5. Why does Kunta begin eating the horrible gruel that's put before him?
(a) He comes to accept that it's all that will be offered.
(b) He is hungry.
(c) To keep from being beaten for not eating.
(d) So that he will regain his strength.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the one item Omoro keeps from Kunta's childish grasp?

2. What is the purpose of the turtle and the fish in the village well?

3. What is the effect of the harmattan on the people of Juffure?

4. Why do the children of Kunta's village try to catch the flakes of ashes?

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

(see the answer key)

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