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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 71-80.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many strings does the instrument called a kora have?
(a) Twenty-four
(b) Eighteen
(c) Twelve
(d) Six

2. What hope does Kunta hold even when he realizes he can never return to Juffure?
(a) That he can have a family of his own.
(b) That he can learn to live happily in his new role.
(c) That he can at least escape and live in the forests of this new land.
(d) That Allah will not let him die in captivity.

3. Why does Kunta hate the task of carrying Bell's basket of vegetables when she first begins asking him to do it?
(a) He doesn't want to interact with anyone.
(b) He fears going into the big house.
(c) It interrupts his own work.
(d) The women in Africa carry their own.

4. Who drives the master while Kunta is sick with the fever?
(a) Bell
(b) Cato
(c) Fiddler
(d) Noah

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Kunta plan to go on his next trip?

2. What is the one thing Kunta believes he has kept despite having lost his African heritage?

3. Which of the following is not a rule Omoro tells Kunta will help keep him safe from being taken by the toubob?

4. Why do the people of Kunta's village protect owls?

5. Why does Kunta take the seasoned block of wood back to this hut?

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