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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens that Will Palmer has the opportunity to take over the lumber mill?
(a) The previous owner declares bankruptcy.
(b) He has land with lumber that provides the basis for his share.
(c) He buys in with his savings.
(d) Tom helps him buy in.

2. What is the news George and the master learn as they are preparing for the trip to New Orleans?
(a) That Virgil has died
(b) That Uncle Mingo has died
(c) That Uncle Pompey has died
(d) That the missus has died

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

4. What does Bell eventually reveal about her life before she married Kunta?
(a) That she was raped by an overseer.
(b) That she had two children.
(c) That she was married to a man in Africa.
(d) That she waited all her life for a man like Kunta.

5. What safeguard does Master John insist on with regard to his food after he learns about the black uprising in Richmond?
(a) He has Kizzy taste his food.
(b) He has all his food brought from his own plantation.
(c) He watches Bell cook his food.
(d) He doesn't eat anything that Bell cooks.

6. What is the contraption Amos describes that sounds like a cricket?
(a) A washing machine
(b) A telegraph
(c) A sewing machine
(d) An anvil

7. What does Kizzy learn will keep her new master busy for several days, thereby saving her from being raped again for that length of time?
(a) His wife is demanding his attention.
(b) He has gone to buy another slave.
(c) He has gone to a chicken fight.
(d) His daughter is visiting.

8. Who has the biggest cabin among the slave quarters?
(a) Kunta
(b) Anne
(c) Fiddler
(d) Bell

9. What is the job Tom is assigned to do with regard to the war effort?
(a) Blacksmith for the Calvary every other week
(b) Go to war with them to fight
(c) Do jobs for the military for free
(d) Repair guns for the Infantry every other week

10. What is the name given to George and Matilda's fourth son?
(a) Toby
(b) Kunta
(c) George
(d) Tom

11. What does the master name Kizzy's son?
(a) Buck
(b) Abraham
(c) Kunta
(d) George

12. Where does Kizzy discover she is now living with the new master?
(a) Virginia
(b) Georgia
(c) North Carolina
(d) South Carolina

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

14. What nickname does George come to like?
(a) Winning George
(b) Gorgeous George
(c) Crying George
(d) Chicken George

15. How much money does the master give George to bet on his own birds?
(a) A quarter
(b) Fifty cents
(c) Twenty dollars
(d) Two dollars

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Bell say she discovered about the slaves if their master dies without a wife?

2. How old is the author when his grandfather dies?

3. What is the gift Kunta gives Bell?

4. What fact does the overseer withhold from Master Murray?

5. What had been the cause of the gardener's disability?

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