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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the outcome of the overseer's wife's pregnancy?
(a) She gives birth to a boy who dies.
(b) She gives birth to a girl who dies.
(c) She gives birth to twins and one dies.
(d) She dies.

2. Why does Kunta feel uneasy about Missy Anne's teaching Kizzy the letters of the alphabet?
(a) He says Kizzy is learning toubob things.
(b) He does not want Kizzy to play when she should be working.
(c) He does not believe girls should be educated.
(d) He is afraid she will be punished for learning.

3. Why is the name Virgil given to George and Matilda's son?
(a) It was the name of the man who previously owned Matilda.
(b) It was George's father's name.
(c) It is Matilda's father's name.
(d) The master selects it.

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

5. What is the name of the new masters who have purchased Matilda and her family?
(a) Ashford
(b) Williams
(c) Murray
(d) McPhearson

Short Answer Questions

1. How much money does the master give George to bet on his own birds?

2. Why is Kizzy arrested?

3. What is the one thing Kunta believes he has kept despite having lost his African heritage?

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

5. How old is Kizzy when Bell tells her she will have to begin doing some work at the big house?

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