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This test consists of 5 short answer questions and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the white man who is appointed overseer by Master Murray?

2. What safeguard does Master John insist on with regard to his food after he learns about the black uprising in Richmond?

3. What is Tom's answer to the restriction that he cannot build a blacksmith shop in the Tennessee town where they arrive?

4. What song does Fiddler say he played to prove to the whites in Richmond that he was a fiddler?

5. A slave who is asked whether he'll side with the North or South says that the two are like what animal?

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

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?

Essay Topic 3

After twenty years, Kunta says that he suddenly realizes that he has lost himself. What is it that he feels has happened to him after his years in slavery and what is the impact on him?

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