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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How much money does the master give George to bet on his own birds?
(a) Two dollars
(b) A quarter
(c) Fifty cents
(d) Twenty dollars

2. What is the outcome of the overseer's wife's pregnancy?
(a) She gives birth to twins and one dies.
(b) She gives birth to a boy who dies.
(c) She gives birth to a girl who dies.
(d) She dies.

3. Where does the author become a journalist?
(a) In the military
(b) In Japan
(c) In Chicago
(d) In Tennessee

4. What is the gift George gives to Matilda when they marry?
(a) A bathtub
(b) A new house
(c) A ring
(d) A grandfather clock

5. Why does Kunta take the seasoned block of wood back to this hut?
(a) To carve
(b) To sit on
(c) To prop his table on
(d) To use for firewood

6. What is it that Tom Lea says changed his life?
(a) The pain of always being hungry
(b) A sermon
(c) Watching his father beat his mother
(d) His wife's faith in him

7. Who is the first person George encounters upon arriving at the plantation where his family now lives?
(a) Irene
(b) Matilda
(c) Kizzy
(d) Tom

8. What does Mingo say was the nickname given to the girl he slipped off to see as a young man?
(a) Blue Eyes
(b) Black Beauty
(c) Brown Sugar
(d) Blacksnake

9. What is the name of the organization that proposes a mass return of blacks to Africa?
(a) The Black Affiliation
(b) The Freedman's Society
(c) The NAACP
(d) The Negro Union

10. Where does Kizzy discover she is now living with the new master?
(a) North Carolina
(b) Georgia
(c) Virginia
(d) South Carolina

11. What is the sign of mourning recognized by the slaves?
(a) A straw hat hung on the door
(b) A black shroud over the window
(c) A bouquet of dried flowers on the door
(d) A dark armband worn by the slaves

12. What is the highest amount offered to the master for George?
(a) Three thousand dollars
(b) Three hundred dollars
(c) Four hundred dollars
(d) Four thousand dollars

13. What is the contraption Amos describes that sounds like a cricket?
(a) A washing machine
(b) An anvil
(c) A sewing machine
(d) A telegraph

14. What task are Tom and the others involved in when he tells about Lincoln's determination to end slavery?
(a) Cracking hickory nuts
(b) Shelling peas
(c) Cleaning
(d) Working in the field

15. What is the slave name of the man with the African name Boteng Bediako?
(a) Pompey
(b) Thomas
(c) Bud
(d) Pompus

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the name of the daughter Will spoils?

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

4. What is the name of Matilda and George's seventh child?

5. What is the job of Mingo?

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