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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the purpose of the turtle and the fish in the village well?
(a) To provide food
(b) To eat insects
(c) There is no purpose
(d) They are left there as a prank by the younger boys

2. What does Bell say about the reason the master has never been married?
(a) That he was married and his wife died in childbirth.
(b) That he was to be married but the young woman drowned.
(c) That he has never found a woman worthy of him.
(d) That he is to be married in the coming year.

3. What does Bell eventually reveal about her life before she married Kunta?
(a) That she was raped by an overseer.
(b) That she had two children.
(c) That she waited all her life for a man like Kunta.
(d) That she was married to a man in Africa.

4. Why does Kunta take the seasoned block of wood back to this hut?
(a) To carve
(b) To prop his table on
(c) To use for firewood
(d) To sit on

5. How is Kunta fed when he becomes too weak to eat for himself?
(a) By pouring watered gruel down his throat
(b) He isn't fed
(c) Through a tube
(d) A woman chews the food and then forces it between his lips

Short Answer Questions

1. According to custom, when is Kunta to be weaned?

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

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

4. What does Fiddler do to make his fingers nimble again?

5. What does Kunta do with the food the woman brings him as he continues to convalesce?

(see the answer key)

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