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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who is the first person George sees upon his return to the Lea farm?
(a) Matilda
(b) Miss Malizy
(c) Kizzy
(d) Tom Lea

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

4. Why is the name Virgil given to George and Matilda's son?
(a) It was the name of the man who previously owned Matilda.
(b) It is Matilda's father's name.
(c) It was George's father's name.
(d) The master selects it.

5. What is the occupation of Kunta's owner?
(a) A lawyer
(b) A politician
(c) A doctor
(d) A gentleman farmer

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

7. What does Missy Anne do to help while Kunta is ill?
(a) She carries soup to the slave huts.
(b) She travels with her uncle as his assistant.
(c) She reads from the Bible.
(d) She takes over some of the cooking.

8. Who drives the master while Kunta is sick with the fever?
(a) Bell
(b) Cato
(c) Noah
(d) Fiddler

9. What is the job of Mingo?
(a) Working in the fields
(b) Driving the master
(c) Tending the pigs
(d) Tending the chickens

10. What is the one thing Kunta believes he has kept despite having lost his African heritage?
(a) His dignity
(b) His faith
(c) Nothing
(d) His love of his family

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

12. Why is Kizzy arrested?
(a) She wrote a note for Noah.
(b) She wrote her name on the slave cabin.
(c) She read newspapers that belonged to the master.
(d) She stole paper.

13. What had been the cause of the gardener's disability?
(a) He was beaten by a slave tracker.
(b) He was mauled by dogs.
(c) He fell from a loft in the barn.
(d) He was kicked by a horse.

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

15. What is the surprise that Cynthia and Will are given by their daughter in 1921?
(a) The news that their daughter was to become a pianist
(b) The news that they were to have a grandchild
(c) Their grandchild, Alex Haley
(d) A clock sent by their daughter

Short Answer Questions

1. What song does Fiddler say he played to prove to the whites in Richmond that he was a fiddler?

2. How much does Uncle Mingo bet on the second fight in which he and George participate?

3. What is it that the slave named Noah tells Kunta that he plans to do?

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

5. What is the gift Kunta gives Bell?

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