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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 91-100.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Kunta learn is the reason that Fiddler is no longer playing for the slaves?
(a) He is angry at Kunta.
(b) He is paid to play for the whites and is worn out.
(c) He is planning to leave the plantation.
(d) He is getting too old to play well.

2. Who has the responsibility for harvesting rice?
(a) The young boys
(b) The men
(c) The women
(d) The entire family

3. How is Kunta told that a griot learns his skill?
(a) By studying with the elder griots.
(b) By spending time with the minds of the ancestors.
(c) By traveling from tribe to tribe and learning from tribe elders.
(d) By reading the written ancestry of the tribes.

4. What item is bestowed on Kunta by Omoro to mark his next step into manhood at age twelve?
(a) A new bow
(b) A slingshot
(c) New clothes
(d) New shoes

5. What does Kunta vow that he will do if he ever again returns to his village?
(a) That he will show his mother his love for her.
(b) That he will raise an army to kill toubob.
(c) That he will tell what the toubob land is really like.
(d) That he will never again leave.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Luther aid in the attempted escape of a house girl?

2. What is Kunta wearing when he wakes after his attack?

3. What are Kunta and the other captives given on their seventh morning on land?

4. What is the sight that distracts everyone and allows the captive from the Wolof tribe to attack?

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

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