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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 learn is the purpose of the trip being taken by the three young men who arrive one day at his village?
2. What does Kunta know to be the truth when he feels the ship begin to move?
3. Kunta discovers he is chained to _________.
4. What are Kunta and the other captives given on their seventh morning on land?
5. What year is the baby who will be named Kunta born?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does Irene go about ensuring that her master and missus will sell her to Tom's?
2. What is the purpose of the fudano leaves used by the women of the village?
3. What is the dispute over fruit that is brought to the council and what is the resolution?
4. What is Kunta's reaction when he sees the toubob unwrap his foot for the first time after the amputation?
5. What does George tell his family about the land in Tennessee where he wants to go?
6. Why does Fiddler tell Kunta he's a "half-free nigger?"
7. What does Master John tell the slaves while he is staying at the plantation overseeing things?
8. What are the circumstances surrounding Tom's first encounter with the man who would become the plantation overseer?
9. What is the concern Matilda feels about George's travels?
10. How is the land prepared for the annual planting season?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What does Kunta observe about the wealthy whites and the poor whites who attend church together at Waller Meetinghouse? Compare that to Kunta's thoughts on the separation of blacks and whites.
Essay Topic 2
How do the attitudes of the blacks change when they are freed? Compare that to the attitudes of the whites over the following years.
Essay Topic 3
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?
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