Kindred Quizzes

Kindred Quiz 1

1 What year is the novel set in during the present?
1980

1900

1976

1960
2 What is the first year the novel is set in during the past?
1800

1865

1900

1815
3 Where do Dana and Kevin live in the present?
Maryland

New York

Virginia

California
4 Where is Dana sent to?
New York

Virginia

Maryland

California
5 Dana can best be described as
independent

shy

apathetic

angry
6 What body part does Dana lose?
A leg

An arm

A hand

A foot
7 What is happening to Rufus the first time Dana is sent back?
He is setting fire to his curtains

He is being beaten up

He has a broken leg

He is drowning
8 Rufus says he saw Dana and Kevin
cooking

walking around

sorting books

fighting
9 What calls Dana back to the past?
Rufus being in danger

Threats to Rufus's slaves

Rufus calling for her because he wants her

Alice being in danger
10 On Dana's second visit, where does Rufus suggest she go?
The cookhouse

North

To the woods

Alice's house
11 On her second visit, what sends her back to the present?
Slitting her wrists

Being whipped

Threat of a gun

Threat of rape
12 Where do Kevin and Dana meet?
Church

The labor agency

A book signing

A protest
13 What is Kevin and Dana's favored profession?
The law

Music

Acting

Writing
14 What does Dana take at UCLA?
Art classes

Music classes

History classes

Writing classes
15 Where does Kevin say he came from?
California

New York

Virginia

Alabama
16 What is considered most "white" about Dana?
The way she carries herself

The way she talks

The way she looks

The way she dresses
17 What does Rufus break?
His back

His collarbone

His leg

His arm
18 What word best describes Margaret Weylin when she is younger?
Shy

Apathetic

Sadistic

Fretful
19 What part of the 19th century is Dana worried about?
Weather

Disease

Misogyny

Clothing
20 What does Weylin hire Kevin to do?
Teach Rufus

Read to Margaret

Oversee the slaves

Do his books
21 What is Carrie afflicted with?
Stunted growth

Deafness

Low IQ

Disease
22 What does Weylin want Dana to do on the plantation?
Work in the fields

Help Rufus read

Cook

Sew
23 Why does Margaret call Dana a whore?
She flirts with male slaves

She sleeps with Kevin

She dresses in a strange way

She sleeps with Weylin
24 What does Weylin get mad at Dana for doing?
The way she dresses

Reading and teaching the slave children

Talking back to Margaret

Sleeping with Kevin
25 What "game" are the slave children playing?
Slave auction

Wedding ceremony

Shopkeeper

Congress

Isaac is fighting with Rufus because Rufus was trying to seduce Alice.

Asked by jose x #509833

Answered by jill d #170087 on 10/18/2023 11:34 AM

How does she influence him and his attitude toward slavery?

Dana really has no influence on Rufus' attitude towards slavery. Though she meets him when he is a mere child, he still grows up to be a man who abuses and oppresses his slave, and rapes the women.

Asked by Hailemicheal T #1306514

Answered by jill d #170087 on 5/12/2023 6:12 PM

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How long has it been in 1976?

The time span between the past and the present is approximately 150 years.

Asked by jaemir w #1276862

Answered by jill d #170087 on 12/7/2022 7:08 PM

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