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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of the new masters who have purchased Matilda and her family?
(a) Ashford
(b) Williams
(c) McPhearson
(d) Murray

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. 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 poor.
(d) That he is married.

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

12. What is the job Tom is assigned to do with regard to the war effort?
(a) Do jobs for the military for free
(b) Blacksmith for the Calvary every other week
(c) Repair guns for the Infantry every other week
(d) Go to war with them to fight

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

14. Who has the biggest cabin among the slave quarters?
(a) Anne
(b) Fiddler
(c) Bell
(d) Kunta

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What task are Tom and the others involved in when he tells about Lincoln's determination to end slavery?

2. What does Bell eventually reveal about her life before she married Kunta?

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

4. What nickname does George come to like?

5. How does George die?

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