Kindred the Fall

What do Kevin and Dana decide to do at the end of our reading passage in order to keep Dana safe?

• Stop Rufus from hurting Alice

• Stop Rufus from turning into his father

• Teach the other slaves to forge freedom papers

• Teach Dana how to use a knife

What was the name of Tom Weylin's first wife, to whom the books at the plantation belonged?

• Margaret

• Helen

• Hannah

• Sarah

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When Weylin sees Dana leaving Kevin's room and winks at her, how does she feel?

• Angry

• Proud

• Fearful

• Ashamed

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When Kevin tries to persuade Dana to leave the Weylins, what is her response?

• She refuses.

• She starts trying to new lodgings.

• She agrees.

• She hopes that Alice's family can host her.

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What does Rufus tell Dana that reveals a rare glimmer of his humanity?

• He tells her he sympathized with Sarah when his father sold off her sons.

• He tells her that he agrees with how the plantation is operated.

• He tells her that he loves Alice.

• He tells her that he wishes she was not married to Kevin.

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Dana meets Weylin, who quizzes her about her abilities and says he wants to buy her from Kevin so she can teach Rufus.

• True

• False

_______ says the plantation is not that inhuman, and Dana says physical violence is not the only form of brutality.

• Kevin

• Rufus

• Weylin

• Luke

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Kevin cannot see the Weylin plantation as Dana sees it due to (check all answers that are correct)

• his being a white man

• his being in the house, kept away from the day-to-day lives of the slaves

• his lack of imagination outside of his own experience

• Kevin loves his new life.

What is Rufus' father most concerned with at the start of The Fall, Part 3?

• what the doctor will charge to fix Rufus’s leg

• if his son is OK after the fall

• Tom Weylin is not in this section.

• why they have coins from the future

What does Rufus beg his father?

• to allow Kevin and Dana to come with them

• to not call the doctor

• to believe that Dana and Kevin are from the future

• to fix Rufus' leg himself