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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 eat insects
(b) To provide food
(c) There is no purpose
(d) They are left there as a prank by the younger boys

2. How many times do the mourning women walk around Kunta's grandmother when she dies?
(a) Seven
(b) Five
(c) One
(d) Twelve

3. What do Kunta and Lamin have when they return to Juffure?
(a) A panther hide
(b) Seeds for new crops
(c) Enough gold to buy a cow
(d) A collection of elephant tusks

4. After whom is Kunta named?
(a) His grandfather
(b) The midwife
(c) His father
(d) His grandmother

5. How old are girls when they prepare to marry?
(a) Fourteen rains or younger
(b) Nineteen rains or older
(c) Thirty rains or older
(d) Twenty rains or younger

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Master William say are a man's two best investments?

3. What is the fear spreading among the slaves and that Kunta and Fiddler try to keep to themselves?

4. Who tells Kunta and the other children the story of Kunta's grandfather's prayers for the deliverance from the drought?

5. What infirmity does the "brown" man have during Kunta's recuperation?

(see the answer key)

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