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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 Binta's reaction to the news that Kunta will be taking Lamin on a trip?
(a) She is happy and helps them pack food.
(b) She refuses to let him go.
(c) She gathers her other two sons and cries.
(d) She begs Omoro to change his mind.

2. What question is NOT asked of the boys of Kunta's group upon their graduation?
(a) About the work of their ancestors
(b) How to write their names in Arabic
(c) A math problem about monkeys and ground nuts
(d) How to decipher the message of the village drum

3. What does Kunta steal in the hope that it might help him escape?
(a) A wedge
(b) A key
(c) A map
(d) A knife

4. What song are the blacks in the field singing as Kunta travels with his new owner?
(a) Through the Valley
(b) Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
(c) An African death song
(d) He cannot understand the words.

5. What is the gift Omoro gives Kunta upon his graduation?
(a) A pair of goats
(b) A new set of clothes
(c) A drum
(d) A blessing

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Kunta learn had been the old gardener's name?

2. What is the gift Nyo Boto gives Kunta as he prepares to go on the journey with his father?

3. Which of the following is not what Kunta knows of the manhood training older boys receive?

4. Who drives the master while Kunta is sick with the fever?

5. What is the occupation of Kunta's owner?

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