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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 is the fate of a boy who fails the manhood training?
(a) He is sent from the village.
(b) He is killed.
(c) He is treated always like a child and never marries.
(d) He is given another chance the following year.

2. What is the fate of the young girl who jumps overboard?
(a) She is shot by the slavers.
(b) She is eaten by sharks.
(c) She drowns.
(d) She is left behind.

3. What item is bestowed on Kunta by Binta to mark his next step into manhood?
(a) A slingshot
(b) New shoes
(c) New clothes
(d) A new knife

4. What is the effect of the harmattan on the people of Juffure?
(a) Their tempers grow short.
(b) They are unable to grow crops.
(c) They are cold all the time.
(d) Game becomes scarce.

5. What do the elders say is the advantage the toubob have over the tribes of Africans?
(a) That the tribes don't band together against him.
(b) That he has money to buy what he wants.
(c) That he lies and cheats naturally.
(d) That he comes in great numbers.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the drawing on the hide displayed by Janneh?

2. What is the significance of a wrestler picking up the headpiece of a village girl?

3. Why do Kunta and his father gather the dust of their first footprints of their journey?

4. How do the women on the ship relay information to the men?

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

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