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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where is Kunta to live when he returns to the village after his manhood training?
(a) In a hut with other young men of his age
(b) In the hut with his father
(c) In the hut of his mother
(d) In his own hut

2. What does Kunta learn had been the old gardener's name?
(a) Stephan
(b) Greeson
(c) Toby
(d) Josephus

3. What are Kunta and the other captives given on their seventh morning on land?
(a) Meat
(b) Medicine
(c) A prayer mat
(d) Clothes

4. What is the sight that distracts everyone and allows the captive from the Wolof tribe to attack?
(a) A sudden storm on the horizon
(b) Flying fish
(c) Another ship
(d) The dancing slaves

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the attitude of Nyo Boto toward the men of the tribe?

2. What does Bell eventually reveal about her life before she married Kunta?

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

4. Who has the responsibility for harvesting rice?

5. What color does Binta dye her new cotton for the family's clothing?

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