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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Missy Anne do to help while Kunta is ill?
(a) She carries soup to the slave huts.
(b) She travels with her uncle as his assistant.
(c) She takes over some of the cooking.
(d) She reads from the Bible.

3. What is Tom's answer to the restriction that he cannot build a blacksmith shop in the Tennessee town where they arrive?
(a) He creates a traveling blacksmith business.
(b) He sets up his forge on his land so customers can come to him.
(c) He decides to become a farmer and forget the trade.
(d) He moves to another town.

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

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

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

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

8. What is the reason Tom comes home for a visit after nine months of training as a blacksmith?
(a) The birth of a new sister
(b) Christmas
(c) The death of Uncle Pompey
(d) Thanksgiving

9. How old is Kizzy's son when he begins working in the field?
(a) Four
(b) Five
(c) Eight
(d) Six

10. Who is the first person George encounters upon arriving at the plantation where his family now lives?
(a) Matilda
(b) Kizzy
(c) Tom
(d) Irene

11. What is it that the slave named Noah tells Kunta that he plans to do?
(a) Be a driver like Kunta
(b) Try to make money like Fiddler
(c) Run away
(d) Ask Kizzy to marry him

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

13. How old is Kizzy when Bell tells her she will have to begin doing some work at the big house?
(a) Seven
(b) Five
(c) Four
(d) Eight

14. What is the highest amount offered to the master for George?
(a) Three hundred dollars
(b) Four hundred dollars
(c) Three thousand dollars
(d) Four thousand dollars

15. What does the master leave each time he comes to Kizzy's bed?
(a) Nothing
(b) Extra food
(c) A coin
(d) A trinket

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the news George and the master learn as they are preparing for the trip to New Orleans?

2. What is the name of Matilda and George's seventh child?

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

4. What is the name of the organization that proposes a mass return of blacks to Africa?

5. What does George learn he must do in order to retain his status as a free man?

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