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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 does Kunta know to be the meaning of the frequent howling of women in their huts?
(a) That the woman's family is hungry
(b) That a loved one has died
(c) That a husband has taken a new wife
(d) That a child is being born

2. Who is the woman who tends Kunta after his failed escape attempt?
(a) Binta
(b) Bando
(c) Bell
(d) Brenda

3. Where does Kunta plan to go on his next trip?
(a) To look for more gold
(b) To the village of his uncles
(c) To the fields where the elephants die
(d) Mali

4. What is the sight that distracts everyone and allows the captive from the Wolof tribe to attack?
(a) The dancing slaves
(b) Another ship
(c) A sudden storm on the horizon
(d) Flying fish

5. Why does the old gardener tell Kunta their master doesn't have an overseer?
(a) He wants no one to beat the slaves.
(b) His previous overseer wasn't trustworthy.
(c) He believes the slaves won't run away.
(d) He wants to be the overseer himself.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the significance of a wrestler picking up the headpiece of a village girl?

2. Why do the children of Kunta's village try to catch the flakes of ashes?

3. Why are the young men of Kunta's age urged to attend council meetings?

4. What order is given to the young boy who continually talks when he should be silent?

5. What is the meat on Kunta's plate when he revives after having been whipped?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Kunta come to realize that he is now into his "nineteenth rain?"

2. How do Kunta's friends act upon his return?

3. What are some of the things of Africa Kunta sees in his surroundings?

4. How does Irene go about ensuring that her master and missus will sell her to Tom's?

5. How does the relationship between Kunta and Lamin begin to develop as Kunta ages?

6. How does it come about that Kunta realizes he is now thirty-four rains in age?

7. What does Kunta remember that his father had told him about being willing to give and accept?

8. What is Uncle Mingo's reaction when the master tells them about the uprising and threatens them if they act as if they might revolt?

9. What hope does Kizzy hold onto regarding how she might yet be returned to her parents?

10. 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?

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