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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 is the attitude of Nyo Boto toward the men of the tribe?
(a) She is defiant.
(b) She makes wigs to show her love for them.
(c) She desires them all.
(d) She defers to their needs.

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

3. What name is given to Kunta's baby brother?
(a) Lamin
(b) Kairaba
(c) Larry
(d) Yasia

4. What does Kunta discover is the name of the black man who gives him the new name?
(a) Toby
(b) Samson
(c) Buck
(d) Thomas

5. How many additional captives are with Kunta when he is first taken?
(a) Twenty
(b) He can't count them
(c) Eight
(d) Eleven

Short Answer Questions

1. How do the people of Juffure learn that there are ferocious wrestlers on their way to the village?

2. Why are battles begun late in the day?

3. What does Kunta know to be the meaning of the frequent howling of women in their huts?

4. What order is given to the young boy who continually talks when he should be silent?

5. What do the elders say is the advantage the toubob have over the tribes of Africans?

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