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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Kunta know to be the meaning of the frequent howling of women in their huts?

2. What is Binta's reaction to the news that Kunta will be taking Lamin on a trip?

3. What item is bestowed on Kunta by Omoro to mark his next step into manhood at age twelve?

4. What is the fate of a boy who fails the manhood training?

5. What is it that causes Lamin to scream as he and Kunta travel?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What are some of the sounds Kunta misses from his home during the quiet times on the planation?

3. What is the result of Fiddler saving up to buy his freedom?

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

5. 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?

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

7. How is the land prepared for the annual planting season?

8. When George hears that there has been a threat of an uprising that resulted in an order for blacks to remain in their cabins at his plantation, what is his reaction and what does he eventually realize about that reaction?

9. What is the significance of Kunta's action with the dirt when Kizzy is taken away and what does he do with it?

10. What is Kunta's reaction when he sees the toubob unwrap his foot for the first time after the amputation?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is it that makes the entire family of Matilda and Chicken George travel to Tennessee rather than remaining on the Murray plantation? What makes others join them?

Essay Topic 2

What is the traditional story told to the babies and children born of the descendants of Kunta? Why does Will Palmer resent this tradition?

Essay Topic 3

Compare the first plantation where Kunta is held with the second. What does he say is the same at the two?

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