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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. According to custom, when is Kunta to be weaned?

2. How does Luther aid in the attempted escape of a house girl?

3. What food is offered Kunta by the black slave?

4. How is Bell getting information about the uprising against England?

5. What is Kunta's punishment upon his capture?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How is Kunta's name revealed?

3. How is the land prepared for the annual planting season?

4. What hope does Kizzy hold onto regarding how she might yet be returned to her parents?

5. What does Bell say is the master's attitude about the "yellow" slaves?

6. What are the circumstances surrounding Tom's first encounter with the man who would become the plantation overseer?

7. How does Kunta come to realize that he is now into his "nineteenth rain?"

8. What is the attitude of the other blacks Kunta reaches the plantation that will be his new home and what does Kunta think of it?

9. What happens to George and his family as a result of Nat Turner's uprising and what is the end result with regard to the relationship between George and the master, Tom Lea?

10. What is the concern Matilda feels about George's travels?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe Kunta's trip to America.

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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