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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What fact does the overseer withhold from Master Murray?
(a) That he is married.
(b) That he doesn't know anything about being an overseer.
(c) That he will work hard in the fields.
(d) That he is poor.

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. What is the highest amount offered to the master for George?
(a) Four thousand dollars
(b) Three thousand dollars
(c) Three hundred dollars
(d) Four hundred dollars

11. What is it that George shows the master in an effort to sell the idea of Tom becoming a blacksmith?
(a) A pitcher made of a cowhorn
(b) A pitcher made of a broken shovel
(c) A pitcher made of brass
(d) A pitcher made of wire

12. What safeguard does Master John insist on with regard to his food after he learns about the black uprising in Richmond?
(a) He watches Bell cook his food.
(b) He doesn't eat anything that Bell cooks.
(c) He has Kizzy taste his food.
(d) He has all his food brought from his own plantation.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is the name Virgil given to George and Matilda's son?

2. What is it that the slave named Noah tells Kunta that he plans to do?

3. Where does Kizzy discover she is now living with the new master?

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

5. How many cocks does George plan to take with him on the trip to New Orleans?

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