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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the fate of the man who has an infected wound on his leg?
(a) He is considered useless and is thrown overboard
(b) His leg is amputated and he dies
(c) His leg is amputated and he is returned to Africa
(d) He dies in the hold while chained to Kunta

2. What is Kunta wearing when he wakes after his attack?
(a) Only a loincloth
(b) Nothing
(c) White man's clothing
(d) His own bloodied clothes

3. What is the disease that runs quickly through the hold of the ship, claiming many lives?
(a) The flux
(b) The flu
(c) Infection
(d) Scurvy

4. What song are the blacks in the field singing as Kunta travels with his new owner?
(a) An African death song
(b) Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
(c) Through the Valley
(d) He cannot understand the words.

5. What do Kunta's friends believe about the toubob?
(a) That they kill their captives as offerings to their gods.
(b) That they take captives to become their slaves.
(c) That they force their captives to walk until they die.
(d) That they take captives to eat them.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to custom, when is Kunta to be weaned?

2. What year is the baby who will be named Kunta born?

3. What does Omoro say about those who become slaves during a battle against an enemy?

4. What hope does Kunta hold even when he realizes he can never return to Juffure?

5. Why do the people of Kunta's village protect owls?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Fiddler tell Kunta he's a "half-free nigger?"

2. Why does Kunta become disappointed with his new role as a man?

3. What is the dream Belle has during her pregnancy?

4. How does George get his freedom papers?

5. How does George come to know the identity of his father?

6. How does Chicken George take the death of his wife, Matilda?

7. What is it that divides and delays an uprising of the captives aboard the ship?

8. What is the attitude of the other blacks Kunta reaches the plantation that will be his new home and what does Kunta think of it?

9. What happens to Kunta and the other captives each time they're taken to the deck of the ship?

10. How does Omoro tell Kunta a person can become a slave?

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