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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What is the fear spreading among the slaves and that Kunta and Fiddler try to keep to themselves?
(a) Fear of being turned over to slavers
(b) Fear of being beaten
(c) Fear of the work that's soon to be added to their load
(d) Fear of being sold

5. What job does George come to have as his permanent assignment?
(a) Working with the gamecocks
(b) He has no permanent job
(c) Working as the houseboy for dinner parties
(d) Working in the fields

6. What is the gift Kunta gives Bell?
(a) A basket of flowers
(b) A mortar and pestle
(c) A large bowl
(d) A carved totem

7. What does the master leave each time he comes to Kizzy's bed?
(a) Extra food
(b) A trinket
(c) A coin
(d) Nothing

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

9. 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 brass
(c) A pitcher made of wire
(d) A pitcher made of a cowhorn

10. What is the slave name of the man with the African name Boteng Bediako?
(a) Pompey
(b) Thomas
(c) Pompus
(d) Bud

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

12. 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) The news that their daughter was to become a pianist
(d) A clock sent by their daughter

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

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) Christmas
(d) The birth of a new sister

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the outcome of the overseer's wife's pregnancy?

2. Where does the author become a journalist?

3. Why is Kizzy arrested?

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

5. What is it that Tom Lea says changed his life?

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