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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What fact does the overseer withhold from Master Murray?
(a) That he doesn't know anything about being an overseer.
(b) That he will work hard in the fields.
(c) That he is married.
(d) That he is poor.

4. How much does Uncle Mingo bet on the second fight in which he and George participate?
(a) Fifty cents
(b) Ten dollars
(c) Two dollars
(d) Twenty dollars

5. What happens that Will Palmer has the opportunity to take over the lumber mill?
(a) He has land with lumber that provides the basis for his share.
(b) He buys in with his savings.
(c) Tom helps him buy in.
(d) The previous owner declares bankruptcy.

6. 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 the work that's soon to be added to their load
(d) Fear of being beaten

7. What is it that George shows the master in an effort to sell the idea of Tom becoming a blacksmith?
(a) A pitcher made of a broken shovel
(b) A pitcher made of wire
(c) A pitcher made of brass
(d) A pitcher made of a cowhorn

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

9. What gift does Kunta carve for Kizzy's second birthday?
(a) A mortar and pestle
(b) A game
(c) A traditional African doll
(d) A totem

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

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

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

13. 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?
(a) He has gone to a chicken fight.
(b) His daughter is visiting.
(c) He has gone to buy another slave.
(d) His wife is demanding his attention.

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

15. A slave who is asked whether he'll side with the North or South says that the two are like what animal?
(a) Horses
(b) Dogs
(c) Cats
(d) Jackasses

Short Answer Questions

1. What job does George come to have as his permanent assignment?

2. How does George die?

3. What is the name of the organization that proposes a mass return of blacks to Africa?

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

5. What is the outcome of the overseer's wife's pregnancy?

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