Kindred Quizzes

Kindred Quiz 1

1 What year is the novel set in during the present?
1900

1980

1960

1976
2 What is the first year the novel is set in during the past?
1815

1865

1900

1800
3 Where do Dana and Kevin live in the present?
New York

Virginia

Maryland

California
4 Where is Dana sent to?
Virginia

California

Maryland

New York
5 Dana can best be described as
angry

shy

independent

apathetic
6 What body part does Dana lose?
A foot

A hand

An arm

A leg
7 What is happening to Rufus the first time Dana is sent back?
He has a broken leg

He is being beaten up

He is setting fire to his curtains

He is drowning
8 Rufus says he saw Dana and Kevin
sorting books

cooking

walking around

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

Threats to Rufus's slaves

Rufus calling for her because he wants her

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

To the woods

The cookhouse

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

Threat of a gun

Being whipped

Threat of rape
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?
Writing

Music

Acting

The law
14 What does Dana take at UCLA?
Writing classes

Music classes

Art classes

History classes
15 Where does Kevin say he came from?
Virginia

Alabama

California

New York
16 What is considered most "white" about Dana?
The way she dresses

The way she talks

The way she carries herself

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

His back

His leg

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

Apathetic

Fretful

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

Clothing

Weather

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

Do his books

Read to Margaret

Oversee the slaves
21 What is Carrie afflicted with?
Low IQ

Deafness

Stunted growth

Disease
22 What does Weylin want Dana to do on the plantation?
Sew

Work in the fields

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?
Reading and teaching the slave children

Sleeping with Kevin

Talking back to Margaret

The way she dresses
25 What "game" are the slave children playing?
Wedding ceremony

Congress

Slave auction

Shopkeeper

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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