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

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

• Angry

• Proud

• Fearful

• Ashamed

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.

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.

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

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