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Kindred

Octavia Butler

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1. Who narrates the novel?

(A) Kevin

(B) Alice

(C) Rufus

(D) Dana

2. What does Kevin do for a living?

(A) He works as a car mechanic.

(B) He writes novels.

(C) He owns a plantation.

(D) He works at a movie theater.

3. Who is Nigel's father?

(A) Luke

(B) Rufus

(C) Weylin

(D) Kevin

4. What happens to Sarah's children?

(A) They escape.

(B) They time-travel to 1976.

(C) They die in infancy.

(D) Weylin sells them.

5. How does Dana get to the past?

(A) In a time machine

(B) By wishing herself there

(C) In dreams

(D) We don't know

6. Why does Rufus sell Sam?

(A) Because he flirts with Dana

(B) Because he rapes Alice

(C) Because he needs the money

(D) Because he wants Sam's wife for himself

7. Which one of the following does Dana NOT save Rufus from?

(A) A fight with another man

(B) A fire

(C) Suicide

(D) Drowning

8. Why does Alice become a slave?

(A) Because she marries a slave

(B) Because her mother is a slave

(C) Because she sleeps with a white man

(D) Because she helps a slave escape

9. Whose mother is still alive when Dana makes her last trip to the South?

(A) Carrie's

(B) Kevin's

(C) Dana's

(D) Joe's

10. Where do Kevin and Dana meet?

(A) In a warehouse

(B) At a library

(C) On a plantation

(D) In Maryland

11. How does Rufus break his leg?

(A) He falls off a horse.

(B) He falls out of a tree.

(C) His father breaks it.

(D) He trips on a rock.

12. What does Margaret throw at Dana?

(A) A shoe

(B) Herself

(C) A stick

(D) A coffee pot

13. Who is Jake Edwards?

(A) A slave

(B) The Weylins' neighbor

(C) Isaac's owner

(D) The overseer

14. Why do the slaves have a party?

(A) Because Rufus is dead

(B) Because Weylin is dead

(C) To shuck the corn

(D) To celebrate Sam's wedding

15. Which one of the following nearly kills Rufus?

(A) A landslide

(B) A thunderstorm

(C) A snowstorm

(D) A flash flood

16. On which day does Dana first travel to the past?

(A) Christmas

(B) Thanksgiving

(C) Easter

(D) Her birthday

17. On which day does Dana travel to the past for the final time?

(A) On the Fourth of July

(B) On Halloween

(C) On Yom Kippur

(D) On New Year's Day

18. How does Dana lose her arm?

(A) Rufus holds onto it.

(B) Kevin beats her.

(C) The patroller cuts it off.

(D) She has a hunting accident.

19. Why does Margaret think Dana is a man?

(A) Because of her beard

(B) Because she has a deep voice

(C) Because she wears pants

(D) Because her name is Dana

20. Who is NOT born during the novel?

(A) Joe

(B) Hagar

(C) Jude

(D) Carrie

21. Why does Kevin believe Carrie is mentally delayed?

(A) Because she is mute

(B) Because she cannot read

(C) Because she cannot write

(D) Because she is blind

22. How does Weylin die?

(A) Dana kills him.

(B) He has a heart attack.

(C) He gets malaria.

(D) He has dengue fever.

23. How does Rufus die?

(A) Dana kills him.

(B) He has a heart attack.

(C) He gets malaria.

(D) He has dengue fever.

24. Of the following, who is never enslaved?

(A) Dana

(B) Kevin

(C) Nigel

(D) Sarah

25. Which one of the following is NOT one of the reasons Dana stabs Rufus?

(A) He attempts to rape her.

(B) He pretended to sell off Alice's children.

(C) He killed Kevin.

(D) He hit Dana.

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