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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does George find his freedom papers?
(a) The master's pocket
(b) The master's strongbox
(c) He gets the master drunk and asks
(d) The master's desk

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

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

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

5. What does Kunta learn had been the old gardener's name?
(a) Greeson
(b) Toby
(c) Stephan
(d) Josephus

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

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

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

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

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

11. What is the gift Tom plans to make for Irene?
(a) A clock
(b) A carved mortar and pestle
(c) A rose of iron
(d) A quilting frame

12. What is the occupation of Kunta's owner?
(a) A gentleman farmer
(b) A politician
(c) A doctor
(d) A lawyer

13. 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

14. What does Bell say she discovered about the slaves if their master dies without a wife?
(a) That they will be given to his brother.
(b) That his niece will inherit them.
(c) That they will be freed.
(d) That they will be sold with the plantation.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the highest amount offered to the master for George?

2. What is the sign of mourning recognized by the slaves?

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

4. What is the name of the new masters who have purchased Matilda and her family?

5. Who is the first person George sees upon his return to the Lea farm?

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