Kindred

Reading Check questions are designed for in-class review on key plot points or for quick verbal or written assessments. Multiple Choice and Short Answer Quizzes create ideal summative assessments, and collectively function to convey a sense of the work’s tone and themes.

Prologue-Chapter 2

Reading Check

1. What has happened to Dana in the prologue of the book?

2. What happens the first time Dana travels back in time?

3. What is Dana’s relationship to Rufus?

4. What state does Dana travel to when she time travels?

5. What does Dana realize about how she is able to get home?

Multiple Choice

1. Why does Rufus think that Dana is a man at first?

A) She uses a false name.

B) She wears pants.

C) She is travelling alone.

D) She does not speak deferentially to him.

2. What evidence does Dana remember that leads her to the realization of her connection to Rufus Weylin?

A) her genealogy chart

B) her mother’s story of their family history

C) her resemblance to him

D) her grandmother Hagar’s Bible

3. What does the young Rufus demand of Dana that she balks at?

A) that she go work in the fields

B) that she cook him food

C) that she not look him in the eye

D) that she call him master

4. What does Kevin initially think of Dana’s experiences?

A) He thinks she is keeping things from him.

B) He thinks she is having a mental breakdown.