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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. How many times do the mourning women walk around Kunta's grandmother when she dies?
2. How does Luther aid in the attempted escape of a house girl?
3. Why are the young men of Kunta's age urged to attend council meetings?
4. Why does Kunta begin eating the horrible gruel that's put before him?
5. What is the effect of the harmattan on the people of Juffure?
Short Essay Questions
1. 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?
2. What is Kunta's first thought after having thought of his father's brothers aboard the slave ship?
3. What is the dream Belle has during her pregnancy?
4. What is it that Bell tells Kunta about his master's reaction when Kunta's foot was severed?
5. How is Kunta's name revealed?
6. What hope does Kizzy hold onto regarding how she might yet be returned to her parents?
7. What does George tell his family about the land in Tennessee where he wants to go?
8. Of what is Kunta reminded during his time with the Ghanaian?
9. How does Chicken George take the death of his wife, Matilda?
10. What is the skill Bell has that she keeps hidden from Kunta and why?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What is the relationship between Uncle Mingo and Master Tom Lea? What is it that causes Uncle Mingo jealousy when the master begins taking George with him as he attends fights?
Essay Topic 2
How do the attitudes of the blacks change when they are freed? Compare that to the attitudes of the whites over the following years.
Essay Topic 3
Who is the man they call "Ol' George?" How does he come to be part of the lives of Tom's family? What is it that prompts him to go with the family when they leave for Tennessee?
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