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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What nickname does George come to like?
(a) Gorgeous George
(b) Winning George
(c) Crying George
(d) Chicken George

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

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

5. How many cocks does George plan to take with him on the trip to New Orleans?
(a) Twenty
(b) Twelve
(c) Eight
(d) Seven

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

7. What does Master William say are a man's two best investments?
(a) Gold and information
(b) Slaves and gold
(c) Information and gold
(d) Land and slaves

8. How does George die?
(a) Falls in the fire and succumbs to his burns.
(b) Wanders off alone and is found dead later.
(c) Has a heart attack and dies in his sleep.
(d) Catches a chill and dies three days later.

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

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

11. Who is the first person George sees upon his return to the Lea farm?
(a) Tom Lea
(b) Kizzy
(c) Miss Malizy
(d) Matilda

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

13. What is the outcome of the overseer's wife's pregnancy?
(a) She gives birth to a girl who dies.
(b) She gives birth to twins and one dies.
(c) She gives birth to a boy who dies.
(d) She dies.

14. What is the reason Tom comes home for a visit after nine months of training as a blacksmith?
(a) Thanksgiving
(b) The death of Uncle Pompey
(c) The birth of a new sister
(d) Christmas

15. Why does Kizzy not offer to teach her son to read and write?
(a) She has forgotten how herself.
(b) She wants him to be ready to learn.
(c) She knows it's against the law.
(d) She feels the knowledge ruined her own life.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the fear spreading among the slaves and that Kunta and Fiddler try to keep to themselves?

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

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 girl the master tells George is two-timing him?

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

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