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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What is the gift Kunta gives Bell?
(a) A basket of flowers
(b) A mortar and pestle
(c) A carved totem
(d) A large bowl

4. What song does Fiddler say he played to prove to the whites in Richmond that he was a fiddler?
(a) Cotton-Eyed Joe
(b) Old Dan Tucker
(c) Turkey in the Straw
(d) Swing Low, Sweet Chariot

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

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

7. What does Bell eventually reveal about her life before she married Kunta?
(a) That she was married to a man in Africa.
(b) That she waited all her life for a man like Kunta.
(c) That she was raped by an overseer.
(d) That she had two children.

8. 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) A clock sent by their daughter
(c) Their grandchild, Alex Haley
(d) The news that they were to have a grandchild

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

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

11. What does Matilda say is her only wish on the morning of the first service in the new church?
(a) That the children would be forever this happy.
(b) That the family would always remain together.
(c) That they had the rest of their children with them.
(d) That Kizzy was with them.

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

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 was kicked by a horse.
(d) He fell from a loft in the barn.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the job of Mingo?

3. What does Master William say are a man's two best investments?

4. Why does Kizzy not offer to teach her son to read and write?

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

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