Unit 4 Not My Bones

Unit 4 Not My Bones / Future's Bones

8th Grade

Check your Understanding

Multiple Choice

The speaker in the poem is most likely ____________

• the author of the poem, Marilyn Nelson

• one of Dr. Porter’s descendants

• Fortune or another formerly enslaved person

• one of Fortune’s ancestors or descendants

Multiple Choice

The primary message in “Not My Bones” is that ____________

• a person’s most important qualities can’t be owned

• a person’s remains should be treated with respect

• Dr. Porter’s descendants were wrong to use Fortune’s skeleton

• people should not own or control other people

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is not one of the reasons we know about Fortune today?

• Historians searched local records and found information about him.

• Archaeologists and anthropologists studied his bones.

• Marilyn Nelson was commissioned to write poems about him.

• Sally Porter Law McGlannan asked the museum to research his bones.

Multiple Choice

For what period of time were Fortune’s bones displayed in the Mattatuck Museum?

• From 1798 to 1970

• From 1803 to 1970

• From 1933 to 1970

• From 1933 to the 1990s

Multiple Choice

The last line, “But he was free,” emphasizes that ____________

• Fortune and his family were freed after Dr. Porter died

• Fortune managed to escape from slavery before he died

• Fortune’s family reclaimed his bones from the museum

• Fortune could no longer be owned after his death