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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 is the penalty Kunta is subjected to when he runs away yet again?

2. What does Kunta believe to be the reason for the scrubbing, medicating and shaving just after land is sighted?

3. What are the men of the village talking about when Kunta finds himself gathered around their fire?

4. How do the women on the ship relay information to the men?

5. What does Kunta say about the color of "the missus?"

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Will Palmer come to be so respected that he's offered the chance to buy the lumber mill?

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

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

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

6. What does Kunta come to realize about the seasons and their impact on his people?

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

8. How do the rocks with which Kunta keeps track of his age become an issue with the master?

9. How are the boys of Kunta's village taken away for their manhood training?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

At a shop in Melville Township, a slave is asked whether he would side with the Southerners or the Yankees if a war broke out. The slave says, "You's seed two dogs fightin' over a bone, Mass? Well, us niggers be's dat bone." What does he mean?

Essay Topic 2

What is the relationship between Uncle Mingo and Master Tom Lea? What is it that causes Uncle Mingo jealousy when the master begins taking George with him as he attends fights?

Essay Topic 3

Describe the relationship as it evolves between George and Tom Lea.

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