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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What job does George come to have as his permanent assignment?
(a) Working with the gamecocks
(b) Working as the houseboy for dinner parties
(c) He has no permanent job
(d) Working in the fields

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

4. What does the master name Kizzy's son?
(a) Abraham
(b) Kunta
(c) George
(d) Buck

5. How many cocks does George plan to take with him on the trip to New Orleans?
(a) Eight
(b) Seven
(c) Twelve
(d) Twenty

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

7. What is the fear spreading among the slaves and that Kunta and Fiddler try to keep to themselves?
(a) Fear of being turned over to slavers
(b) Fear of being sold
(c) Fear of being beaten
(d) Fear of the work that's soon to be added to their load

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

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

10. Where is Kizzy to spend her second birthday?
(a) At home for a party of close friends
(b) In the fields with the slaves
(c) In the big house with Miss Anne
(d) Alone with Kunta and Bell

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

12. What is the name of the girl the master tells George is two-timing him?
(a) Beula
(b) Anne
(c) Charity
(d) Ophelia

13. What is it that the slave named Noah tells Kunta that he plans to do?
(a) Try to make money like Fiddler
(b) Be a driver like Kunta
(c) Ask Kizzy to marry him
(d) Run away

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

15. What is the name of Matilda and George's seventh child?
(a) Anne
(b) Kizzy
(c) Tildy
(d) Bell

Short Answer Questions

1. What safeguard does Master John insist on with regard to his food after he learns about the black uprising in Richmond?

2. What is Tom's answer to the restriction that he cannot build a blacksmith shop in the Tennessee town where they arrive?

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

4. What happens that Will Palmer has the opportunity to take over the lumber mill?

5. Why is the name Virgil given to George and Matilda's son?

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