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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 31-40.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the rule Kunta must follow when it is time to eat?
(a) Keep his eyes on his own food
(b) Never speak to adults who are eating
(c) Eati only after the adults begin
(d) Chew with his mouth closed

2. What does Omoro say about those who become slaves during a battle against an enemy?
(a) That those men agreed to be slaves to save their families.
(b) That those men are embittered and will eventually fight again.
(c) That those men weren't brave enough to die.
(d) That those men were honored to serve the men who defeated them.

3. What is the fate of the young girl who jumps overboard?
(a) She drowns.
(b) She is shot by the slavers.
(c) She is left behind.
(d) She is eaten by sharks.

4. What does Kunta believe to be the reason for the scrubbing, medicating and shaving just after land is sighted?
(a) That they are being prepared for sale.
(b) That they are to be killed.
(c) That they are to be eaten.
(d) That they are to be sent to Allah.

5. Kunta's daydreams of _________ whenever he finds himself alone with his goats to tend
(a) An angry elephant
(b) A wounded buffalo
(c) A wildebeast
(d) A mighty lion

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do the children of Kunta's village try to catch the flakes of ashes?

2. What do Kunta and Lamin have when they return to Juffure?

3. What is the gift Omoro gives Kunta upon his graduation?

4. How old are girls when they prepare to marry?

5. What question is NOT asked of the boys of Kunta's group upon their graduation?

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