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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who looks after Kunta and the other young children of the tribe?
(a) The older sisters
(b) The grandmothers
(c) The mothers
(d) The midwives

2. What does Kunta learn is the reason that Fiddler is no longer playing for the slaves?
(a) He is planning to leave the plantation.
(b) He is angry at Kunta.
(c) He is paid to play for the whites and is worn out.
(d) He is getting too old to play well.

3. Which of the following is not a rule Omoro tells Kunta will help keep him safe from being taken by the toubob?
(a) Never be out at night
(b) Stay away from high bushes and weeds
(c) Never be without a weapon
(d) Never be alone

4. What does Fiddler say happened to his previous master?
(a) He was killed by Indians.
(b) He was shot in a brawl.
(c) His wife killed him.
(d) He drowned.

5. What does Omoro say about those who become slaves during a battle against an enemy?
(a) That those men are embittered and will eventually fight again.
(b) That those men weren't brave enough to die.
(c) That those men agreed to be slaves to save their families.
(d) That those men were honored to serve the men who defeated them.

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

7. Why does Kunta hate the task of carrying Bell's basket of vegetables when she first begins asking him to do it?
(a) He fears going into the big house.
(b) He doesn't want to interact with anyone.
(c) The women in Africa carry their own.
(d) It interrupts his own work.

8. What name is given to Kunta's baby brother?
(a) Yasia
(b) Kairaba
(c) Larry
(d) Lamin

9. Who is the woman who tends Kunta after his failed escape attempt?
(a) Bando
(b) Binta
(c) Bell
(d) Brenda

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

11. What does Kunta do with the food the woman brings him as he continues to convalesce?
(a) He gobbles it as soon as she hands it to him.
(b) He does not eat it at all.
(c) He does not eat it until she leaves.
(d) He feeds it to the dog.

12. Where does Kunta plan to go on his next trip?
(a) To the village of his uncles
(b) To the fields where the elephants die
(c) Mali
(d) To look for more gold

13. What is the name of the village where Kunta lives?
(a) Jefferson
(b) Mandinka
(c) Omoro
(d) Juffure

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

15. 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 the woman's family is hungry
(c) That a child is being born
(d) That a loved one has died

Short Answer Questions

1. How is Bell getting information about the uprising against England?

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

3. How many days is Kunta held in the hold of the ship before being allowed on deck?

4. What is the message Kunta believes has come to him from Allah after he is on land?

5. What item is bestowed on Kunta by Binta to mark his next step into manhood?

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