Kindred Test | Final Test - Hard

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 113 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

Kindred Test | Final Test - Hard

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 113 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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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 Dana wish she was not forced to throw into the fire that haunts her in Part IV?

2. What does Dana use to heal Alice's many wounds in Part III?

3. What does Dana do after Rufus lies to her about the letters?

4. Who is the new overseer at the Weylin property?

5. What are the thick scars some of the slaves get after beatings?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Part IV, how long has Kevin been alone in the 1800s?

2. Why does Dana begin to see that Rufus gets "rewarded" for behaving so badly?

3. Why does Tom Weylin end up sending a letter to Kevin telling him Dana is at his house?

4. Why does Dana try to run away in Part IV?

5. What does Dana convince Rufus to do for Alice and Isaac because of his violence against them both?

6. What is different between marriages between slaves and those between whites in the 1800s?

7. What does Rufus do to Dana and Kevin in Part IV that shocks her?

8. In Part III, how is Rufus's life in danger when Dana is called back to see him as an adult?

9. Why does Dana get beaten so badly in Part IV?

10. What does Dana tell the others in the 1800s about malaria?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What aspects of life in the antebellum South surprise - and disturb - Dana the most? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.

Essay Topic 2

How does Dana help both the slaveowners and the slaves during her time-traveling? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.

Essay Topic 3

How does Butler's prologue shape and set the reader's expectations for the rest of the novel? Write an essay explaining your answers.

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