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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why does Kunta feel uneasy about Missy Anne's teaching Kizzy the letters of the alphabet?
(a) He does not believe girls should be educated.
(b) He does not want Kizzy to play when she should be working.
(c) He says Kizzy is learning toubob things.
(d) He is afraid she will be punished for learning.

3. What is the meaning of the name Kunta chooses for Bell's daughter?
(a) Freedom
(b) Child of God
(c) Remain faithful
(d) You stay put

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

5. What is Tom's answer to the restriction that he cannot build a blacksmith shop in the Tennessee town where they arrive?
(a) He creates a traveling blacksmith business.
(b) He sets up his forge on his land so customers can come to him.
(c) He decides to become a farmer and forget the trade.
(d) He moves to another town.

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

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

8. What does Master William say are a man's two best investments?
(a) Gold and information
(b) Slaves and gold
(c) Land and slaves
(d) Information and gold

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

10. How does Tom meet Irene?
(a) Installing window grills for her missus
(b) At a church meeting
(c) She is a field hand at a neighboring plantation
(d) She comes to Tom's blacksmith shop to pick up a hoe

11. What is the name of the daughter Will spoils?
(a) Betty
(b) Matilda
(c) Kizzy
(d) Bertha

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

13. How old is the author when his grandfather dies?
(a) Fifteen
(b) Seven
(c) Seventeen
(d) Five

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

15. What is the reason Tom comes home for a visit after nine months of training as a blacksmith?
(a) The birth of a new sister
(b) The death of Uncle Pompey
(c) Thanksgiving
(d) Christmas

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the gift Kunta gives Bell?

2. What does Missy Anne do to help while Kunta is ill?

3. What is it that George shows the master in an effort to sell the idea of Tom becoming a blacksmith?

4. What does Kizzy learn will keep her new master busy for several days, thereby saving her from being raped again for that length of time?

5. What is the name of the master's niece of whom he is overly fond?

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