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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How old is Kizzy when Bell tells her she will have to begin doing some work at the big house?
(a) Four
(b) Eight
(c) Five
(d) Seven

2. What is the name of the white man who is appointed overseer by Master Murray?
(a) Thomas
(b) Fred
(c) John
(d) George

3. 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 broken shovel
(b) A pitcher made of wire
(c) A pitcher made of a cowhorn
(d) A pitcher made of brass

4. How old is Kizzy's son when he begins working in the field?
(a) Five
(b) Eight
(c) Four
(d) Six

5. What does the master name Kizzy's son?
(a) Abraham
(b) George
(c) Buck
(d) Kunta

6. Why does Kunta take the seasoned block of wood back to this hut?
(a) To carve
(b) To use for firewood
(c) To prop his table on
(d) To sit on

7. What is the surprise that Cynthia and Will are given by their daughter in 1921?
(a) Their grandchild, Alex Haley
(b) The news that they were to have a grandchild
(c) A clock sent by their daughter
(d) The news that their daughter was to become a pianist

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

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

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

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

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

13. What is Tom's answer to the restriction that he cannot build a blacksmith shop in the Tennessee town where they arrive?
(a) He moves to another town.
(b) He sets up his forge on his land so customers can come to him.
(c) He decides to become a farmer and forget the trade.
(d) He creates a traveling blacksmith business.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How much does Uncle Mingo bet on the second fight in which he and George participate?

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

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

4. What is the one thing Kunta believes he has kept despite having lost his African heritage?

5. What is the news George and the master learn as they are preparing for the trip to New Orleans?

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