Kindred Quizzes

Kindred Quiz 1

1 What year is the novel set in during the present?
1960

1900

1980

1976
2 What is the first year the novel is set in during the past?
1800

1900

1815

1865
3 Where do Dana and Kevin live in the present?
California

New York

Maryland

Virginia
4 Where is Dana sent to?
Maryland

Virginia

California

New York
5 Dana can best be described as
apathetic

shy

angry

independent
6 What body part does Dana lose?
An arm

A hand

A foot

A leg
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
sorting books

fighting

cooking

walking around
9 What calls Dana back to the past?
Rufus calling for her because he wants her

Threats to Rufus's slaves

Rufus being in danger

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

Alice's house

The cookhouse

North
11 On her second visit, what sends her back to the present?
Threat of a gun

Threat of rape

Slitting her wrists

Being whipped
12 Where do Kevin and Dana meet?
A protest

The labor agency

A book signing

Church
13 What is Kevin and Dana's favored profession?
Music

The law

Acting

Writing
14 What does Dana take at UCLA?
Music classes

History classes

Art 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 dresses

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

His arm

His leg

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

Apathetic

Shy

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

Clothing

Misogyny

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

Oversee the slaves

Read to Margaret

Do his books
21 What is Carrie afflicted with?
Low IQ

Disease

Stunted growth

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

Sew

Help Rufus read

Cook
23 Why does Margaret call Dana a whore?
She sleeps with Weylin

She dresses in a strange way

She sleeps with Kevin

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

Reading and teaching the slave children

The way she dresses

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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