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

Short Answer Questions

1. What safeguard does Master John insist on with regard to his food after he learns about the black uprising in Richmond?

2. What does the master leave each time he comes to Kizzy's bed?

3. What is the occupation of Kunta's owner?

4. What nickname does George come to like?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

What is the immediate reaction of Tom and the family when they learn that of the Emancipation Proclamation? How does it change over time, and what is the end result?

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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