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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the disease that runs quickly through the hold of the ship, claiming many lives?
(a) Scurvy
(b) The flu
(c) The flux
(d) Infection

2. What does Kunta know to be the meaning of the frequent howling of women in their huts?
(a) That a husband has taken a new wife
(b) That a loved one has died
(c) That the woman's family is hungry
(d) That a child is being born

3. How is Kunta told that a griot learns his skill?
(a) By spending time with the minds of the ancestors.
(b) By studying with the elder griots.
(c) By traveling from tribe to tribe and learning from tribe elders.
(d) By reading the written ancestry of the tribes.

4. What does a shrouded moon signify?
(a) That there will be a storm.
(b) That Allah is preparing a reward.
(c) That the following day will be bright.
(d) That Allah is displeased.

5. What is the rule Kunta must follow when it is time to eat?
(a) Keep his eyes on his own food
(b) Never speak to adults who are eating
(c) Eati only after the adults begin
(d) Chew with his mouth closed

6. How do the people of Juffure learn that there are ferocious wrestlers on their way to the village?
(a) A strange drum beat
(b) A messenger arrives with the news
(c) There is no warning
(d) The wrestlers always come at this time

7. What does Kunta discover is the name of the black man who gives him the new name?
(a) Thomas
(b) Toby
(c) Samson
(d) Buck

8. What are the men of the village talking about when Kunta finds himself gathered around their fire?
(a) The harvest festival
(b) The taking of slaves
(c) The need for more food
(d) The possibility that they have angered Allah

9. According to custom, when is Kunta to be weaned?
(a) When he can talk
(b) As soon as he can eat meat
(c) At one year
(d) When he can walk

10. What is the gift Nyo Boto gives Kunta as he prepares to go on the journey with his father?
(a) A slingshot
(b) A story
(c) A charm
(d) A pouch

11. What is the attitude of Nyo Boto toward the men of the tribe?
(a) She is defiant.
(b) She desires them all.
(c) She defers to their needs.
(d) She makes wigs to show her love for them.

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

13. How do the women on the ship relay information to the men?
(a) They sing it while the men are on deck.
(b) They pass notes.
(c) They send messages along the lines of the captives.
(d) The women share information while passing out food and water.

14. What is the drawing on the hide displayed by Janneh?
(a) Writing of Allah
(b) A map of the locations of the tribes of Africa
(c) A map of Africa
(d) The history of their people

15. Kunta's daydreams of _________ whenever he finds himself alone with his goats to tend
(a) An angry elephant
(b) A wounded buffalo
(c) A wildebeast
(d) A mighty lion

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the new name given to Kunta?

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

3. What hope does Kunta hold even when he realizes he can never return to Juffure?

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

5. What does Kunta learn is the reason that Fiddler is no longer playing for the slaves?

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