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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. Which of the following is not what Kunta knows of the manhood training older boys receive?
(a) That they must hunt wild animals for food.
(b) That they are left in the forest to find their way back alone.
(c) That a part of their food is taken away.
(d) That they are made to fight each other.

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

3. What is the effect of the harmattan on the people of Juffure?
(a) They are unable to grow crops.
(b) They are cold all the time.
(c) Game becomes scarce.
(d) Their tempers grow short.

4. How many times do the mourning women walk around Kunta's grandmother when she dies?
(a) Seven
(b) Five
(c) One
(d) Twelve

5. What is the purpose of the turtle and the fish in the village well?
(a) To eat insects
(b) There is no purpose
(c) To provide food
(d) They are left there as a prank by the younger boys

Short Answer Questions

1. How old are girls when they prepare to marry?

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

3. What song are the blacks in the field singing as Kunta travels with his new owner?

4. What is the attitude of Nyo Boto toward the men of the tribe?

5. How does Kunta know he and his mates are approaching a freshly cut bamboo grove?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What is the story about Kunta's grandfather's role in Kunta's people?

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

5. What is George's idea about freedom and how does he expect Tom to help?

6. What does George tell his family about the land in Tennessee where he wants to go?

7. What does Kunta learn to be the cause of the brown man's broken arm?

8. How is the size of growing plots determined?

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

10. What is Kunta's first thought after having thought of his father's brothers aboard the slave ship?

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