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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the sign of mourning recognized by the slaves?
(a) A straw hat hung on the door
(b) A bouquet of dried flowers on the door
(c) A dark armband worn by the slaves
(d) A black shroud over the window

2. What does Mingo say was the nickname given to the girl he slipped off to see as a young man?
(a) Black Beauty
(b) Brown Sugar
(c) Blue Eyes
(d) Blacksnake

3. What is the gift Bell makes for Kunta prior to their marriage?
(a) Shoes
(b) Socks
(c) A cap
(d) A mat

4. What is the fear spreading among the slaves and that Kunta and Fiddler try to keep to themselves?
(a) Fear of the work that's soon to be added to their load
(b) Fear of being turned over to slavers
(c) Fear of being sold
(d) Fear of being beaten

5. Why does Kunta take the seasoned block of wood back to this hut?
(a) To use for firewood
(b) To sit on
(c) To prop his table on
(d) To carve

6. What is the job of Mingo?
(a) Tending the pigs
(b) Driving the master
(c) Working in the fields
(d) Tending the chickens

7. What is the outcome of the overseer's wife's pregnancy?
(a) She gives birth to a boy who dies.
(b) She dies.
(c) She gives birth to a girl who dies.
(d) She gives birth to twins and one dies.

8. Who is the first person George sees upon his return to the Lea farm?
(a) Kizzy
(b) Matilda
(c) Miss Malizy
(d) Tom Lea

9. What is the name of the master's niece of whom he is overly fond?
(a) Belinda
(b) Anne
(c) Janet
(d) Margaret

10. What is the name of Matilda and George's seventh child?
(a) Bell
(b) Anne
(c) Tildy
(d) Kizzy

11. Why is the name Virgil given to George and Matilda's son?
(a) It was George's father's name.
(b) The master selects it.
(c) It is Matilda's father's name.
(d) It was the name of the man who previously owned Matilda.

12. What is the slave name of the man with the African name Boteng Bediako?
(a) Thomas
(b) Pompus
(c) Bud
(d) Pompey

13. What is the surprise that Cynthia and Will are given by their daughter in 1921?
(a) The news that they were to have a grandchild
(b) A clock sent by their daughter
(c) Their grandchild, Alex Haley
(d) The news that their daughter was to become a pianist

14. What is the gift George gives to Matilda when they marry?
(a) A bathtub
(b) A new house
(c) A ring
(d) A grandfather clock

15. Who drives the master while Kunta is sick with the fever?
(a) Bell
(b) Cato
(c) Fiddler
(d) Noah

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Kizzy discover she is now living with the new master?

2. Why does Kunta feel uneasy about Missy Anne's teaching Kizzy the letters of the alphabet?

3. What is the job Tom is assigned to do with regard to the war effort?

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

5. What is Tom's answer to the restriction that he cannot build a blacksmith shop in the Tennessee town where they arrive?

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