Kindred Quizzes

Kindred Quiz 1

By Kristen Osborne-Bartucca · Edited by Aaron Suduiko · Last reviewed June 12, 2016

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

1960

1976

1900

1980
2 What is the first year the novel is set in during the past?

1800

1815

1865

1900
3 Where do Dana and Kevin live in the present?

New York

California

Maryland

Virginia
4 Where is Dana sent to?

Virginia

New York

California

Maryland
5 Dana can best be described as

apathetic

angry

shy

independent
6 What body part does Dana lose?

A foot

A leg

An arm

A hand
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 is drowning

He has a broken leg
8 Rufus says he saw Dana and Kevin

sorting books

fighting

cooking

walking around
9 What calls Dana back to the past?

Rufus being in danger

Rufus calling for her because he wants her

Threats to Rufus's slaves

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

The cookhouse

To the woods

Alice's house

North
11 On her second visit, what sends her back to the present?

Threat of rape

Being whipped

Threat of a gun

Slitting her wrists
12 Where do Kevin and Dana meet?

A protest

The labor agency

Church

A book signing
13 What is Kevin and Dana's favored profession?

Music

Acting

The law

Writing
14 What does Dana take at UCLA?

Writing classes

History classes

Music classes

Art classes
15 Where does Kevin say he came from?

New York

Alabama

Virginia

California
16 What is considered most "white" about Dana?

The way she talks

The way she carries herself

The way she looks

The way she dresses
17 What does Rufus break?

His collarbone

His leg

His back

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

Fretful

Shy

Sadistic

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

Disease

Misogyny

Clothing

Weather
20 What does Weylin hire Kevin to do?

Oversee the slaves

Teach Rufus

Do his books

Read to Margaret
21 What is Carrie afflicted with?

Deafness

Low IQ

Disease

Stunted growth
22 What does Weylin want Dana to do on the plantation?

Cook

Work in the fields

Help Rufus read

Sew
23 Why does Margaret call Dana a whore?

She sleeps with Kevin

She sleeps with Weylin

She dresses in a strange way

She flirts with male slaves
24 What does Weylin get mad at Dana for doing?

The way she dresses

Sleeping with Kevin

Reading and teaching the slave children

Talking back to Margaret
25 What "game" are the slave children playing?

Congress

Slave auction

Wedding ceremony

Shopkeeper

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