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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 do the elders say is the advantage the toubob have over the tribes of Africans?

2. What is the one item Omoro keeps from Kunta's childish grasp?

3. How many times do the mourning women walk around Kunta's grandmother when she dies?

4. Where does Kunta plan to go on his next trip?

5. What does Kunta discover is the name of the black man who gives him the new name?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are Kunta's thoughts when he sees the toubob women?

2. What is the issue brought to the council by the young girl named Jankeh Jallon?

3. How does Kunta's father console Kunta upon the death of his grandmother?

4. What is the dream Belle has during her pregnancy?

5. What is Kunta's first thought after having thought of his father's brothers aboard the slave ship?

6. How does it come about that Kunta realizes he is now thirty-four rains in age?

7. How does Irene go about ensuring that her master and missus will sell her to Tom's?

8. With the many traders who stop at Juffure, why do some pass without stopping?

9. How is Kunta's name revealed?

10. When George hears that there has been a threat of an uprising that resulted in an order for blacks to remain in their cabins at his plantation, what is his reaction and what does he eventually realize about that reaction?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What does Kunta observe about the wealthy whites and the poor whites who attend church together at Waller Meetinghouse? Compare that to Kunta's thoughts on the separation of blacks and whites.

Essay Topic 2

What is the importance of the stories about Kunta - called the African - to Kizzy and later to her grandchildren? How do these stories reach George?

Essay Topic 3

What is it that makes the entire family of Matilda and Chicken George travel to Tennessee rather than remaining on the Murray plantation? What makes others join them?

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