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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What task are Tom and the others involved in when he tells about Lincoln's determination to end slavery?
(a) Cracking hickory nuts
(b) Shelling peas
(c) Working in the field
(d) Cleaning

2. 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 Kizzy was with them.
(c) That they had the rest of their children with them.
(d) That the children would be forever this happy.

3. What is the contraption Amos describes that sounds like a cricket?
(a) An anvil
(b) A telegraph
(c) A sewing machine
(d) A washing machine

4. How much money does the master give George to bet on his own birds?
(a) Twenty dollars
(b) Two dollars
(c) A quarter
(d) Fifty cents

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

6. What is the sign of mourning recognized by the slaves?
(a) A bouquet of dried flowers on the door
(b) A black shroud over the window
(c) A dark armband worn by the slaves
(d) A straw hat hung on the door

7. 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 they will be freed.
(c) That they will be sold with the plantation.
(d) That his niece will inherit them.

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

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

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

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

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

13. What is the news George and the master learn as they are preparing for the trip to New Orleans?
(a) That Virgil has died
(b) That the missus has died
(c) That Uncle Mingo has died
(d) That Uncle Pompey has died

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the occupation of Kunta's owner?

3. How old is the author when his grandfather dies?

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

5. Who is the first person George encounters upon arriving at the plantation where his family now lives?

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