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

Short Answer Questions

1. What task are Tom and the others involved in when he tells about Lincoln's determination to end slavery?

2. What is the gift Kunta gives Bell?

3. What is the gift George gives to Matilda when they marry?

4. Where does the author become a journalist?

5. What does Mingo say was the nickname given to the girl he slipped off to see as a young man?

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

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

Essay Topic 3

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?

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