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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 41-50.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What year is the baby who will be named Kunta born?
(a) 1570
(b) 1750
(c) 1850
(d) 1887

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

3. What does Kunta know to be the truth when he feels the ship begin to move?
(a) That he's going to America.
(b) That he will die on this ship.
(c) That he will never see Africa again.
(d) That the men he is shackled to are causing the movement.

4. What does Kunta say about the color of "the missus?"
(a) That her coloring is beautiful.
(b) That she is the same as a toad's underbelly
(c) That her coloring is like honey.
(d) That it makes her pitiful.

5. How does Kunta know he and his mates are approaching a freshly cut bamboo grove?
(a) He smells it through his hood.
(b) He sees it.
(c) He hears the slaves talking about it.
(d) He senses it from the direction they are walking.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the meat on Kunta's plate when he revives after having been whipped?

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

4. What does Kunta believe to be the reason for the scrubbing, medicating and shaving just after land is sighted?

5. What is the rule Kunta must follow when it is time to eat?

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