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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the meaning of the name Kunta chooses for Bell's daughter?
(a) Remain faithful
(b) You stay put
(c) Freedom
(d) Child of God

2. What is the sign of mourning recognized by the slaves?
(a) A dark armband worn by the slaves
(b) A straw hat hung on the door
(c) A bouquet of dried flowers on the door
(d) A black shroud over the window

3. What is the one thing Kunta believes he has kept despite having lost his African heritage?
(a) His faith
(b) Nothing
(c) His love of his family
(d) His dignity

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

5. What is Tom's answer to the restriction that he cannot build a blacksmith shop in the Tennessee town where they arrive?
(a) He moves to another town.
(b) He sets up his forge on his land so customers can come to him.
(c) He decides to become a farmer and forget the trade.
(d) He creates a traveling blacksmith business.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the master's niece of whom he is overly fond?

2. Who drives the master while Kunta is sick with the fever?

3. What does Kunta learn had been the old gardener's name?

4. What is it that the slave named Noah tells Kunta that he plans to do?

5. A slave who is asked whether he'll side with the North or South says that the two are like what animal?

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