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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Kunta feel uneasy about Missy Anne's teaching Kizzy the letters of the alphabet?
(a) He says Kizzy is learning toubob things.
(b) He does not believe girls should be educated.
(c) He does not want Kizzy to play when she should be working.
(d) He is afraid she will be punished for learning.

2. What does Mingo say was the nickname given to the girl he slipped off to see as a young man?
(a) Blacksnake
(b) Brown Sugar
(c) Black Beauty
(d) Blue Eyes

3. 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) The news that they were to have a grandchild
(d) Their grandchild, Alex Haley

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

13. What is the name of the master's niece of whom he is overly fond?
(a) Belinda
(b) Anne
(c) Margaret
(d) Janet

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the gift Bell makes for Kunta prior to their marriage?

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

3. What fact does the overseer withhold from Master Murray?

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

5. What is the name of Matilda and George's seventh child?

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