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Copper Sun Unit Test

Part 1: Multiple Choice Directions: Choose the best answer to each question. 1. What's the name of the soldiers who invaded Amari's village? a.) The Peace Makers b.) The Ashantis c.) The Rebellions d.) none of the above

2. What is the name of the person Amari became close to while being held captive on a boat? a.) Afi b.) Besa c.) Derby d.) Polly

3. What is Amari offered to Clay as? a.) a christmas gift b.) a birthday gift c.)a valentine's day gift d.) to keep him company when parents go on vacation

4. What ironic event happens when Mrs. Derby has her baby? a.) the baby ends up being the wrong gender. b.) the baby dies before it's born. c.) the baby is born black. d.) none of the above.

5. Who is really the bilogical father of Mrs. Derby's baby? a.) Clay b.) Mr. Derby c.) Besa d.) Noah

6. What does Mrs. Derby fear as the outcome of giving birth to a black child? a.) she fears Mr. Derby will kill both her and the baby. b.) she fears Mr. Derby will force her to give up the child. c.) she fears Mr. Derby will make her give away the child into slavery. d.) all of the above.

7. Who does Mr. Derby murder out of anger? a.) Mrs. Derby b.) Noah and the black child c.) Amari d.) Polly

8. What "important" job does Mr. Derby give to Polly? a.) to help train and help Amari in becoming a hard working slave. b.) to serve the Derby family. c.) to train all the slaves on the plantation. d.) to clean and work on the plantations.

9. Why does Clay give Amari the name "Myna"? a.) because he believes she belongs to him. b.) because he really liked that name. c.) because he thought it would make a good slave name d.) because his father gave him the idea to give her that name.

10. Wich word best describes Mrs. Derby's feeling about her lifestyle? a.) unhappy b.) happy c.) grateful d.) none of the above.

11. Which family member of hers does Polly speak most about? a.) brother b.) mother c.) father d.) cousin

12. During their journey to freedom, what kind of soldier do Amari, Polly, and Tidbit meet? a.) indian soldier b.) spanish soldier c.) american soldier d.) asian soldier

13. What is the relationship between Teenie and Tidbit? a.) aunt and nephew b.) uncle and nephew c.) mother and son d.) none of the above.

14. In the story, where were Amari, Polly, and Tidbit heading? a.) Canada b.) North America c.) Fort Mose d.) Mexico

15. Which event occurs last in the book? a.) Clay finds them during their journey. b.) Mr. Derby takes Amari back to the plantation. c.) Tidbit runs away and goes back to his mother. d.) Amari discovers she is pregnant with Clay's child.

Part 2 Short Answer Questions

1.Do you think that Amari will keep here baby?

2.What happened to Amari's family?

3.What did they do to Clay; do you agree with what they did?

4.Who did Amari find on the boat that helped keep her alive?

5.How did Clay become the new master?

6.What was the name of the place they ran away too, did they run north or south?

Part 3: Matching section Character Identification A. Amari B. Kwasi C. Besa D. Polly E. Afi F. Mr. Derby G. Teenie H. Isabelle Derby I. Clay

1. The current mistress of the house that turned out to be motherly, and caring. 2. This person was in a coconut tree, and said "for once I want to look a giraffe in the eye". 3. A white slave working her way into the big house. 4. Who Amari was supposed to marry someday. 5. Young girl who's family died, and is now working in a plantation. 6. Adult who was along the torturing journey with Amari. 7. Son of Mr. Derby. 8. Cook at plantation. 9. plantation owner.

Part 4: Extended Response 1. After reading Copper Sun, what things surprised you about slavery? 2. While on the ship heading to the America's, Draper said the slaves were "stacked like logs for fire". What role did Afi play in helping Amari survive while on the ship? 3. Describe the hardships and battles fought by Amari throughout the book.

Part 5: Essential Questions 1. How is slavery a problem in the world and what effect does it have on the people? Use relations to the book, real world, and personal knowledge. 2. Are blacks and whites treated with equal respect? Are they given the same oppurtunities, or is one race completly dominant? 3. Why do you think after being treated like that, Amari didn't fight back? Explain what you would have done if you were put into a situation like that.

Answer key Multiple Choice 1. B 2. A 3. B 4. C 5. D 6. A 7. B 8. A 9. A 10. A 11. C 12. B 13. C 14. C 15. D Part 2: Short Answer 1.I believe that after the encouraging words that the woman from fort mose said to amari;she said it doesn't matter if you were raped to have that babay its still your baby and you should raise it as your own.Amari nowing this i definetly think she will raise the baby as here own and treat it with love and care. 2.What happend to amari's family was that they had a celabration because a bunch of white people came to their village but all the sudden the visitors start shooting their guns and amari's father and mother and killed do to gunfire.Then amari and her brother run into the forest but her brother gets killed and she gets captured. 3.Amari, Polly and tidbit tied clay up to a tree after polly hit him with a piece of would knocking him out. They then leave him there knowing there's a rattle snake right next to him.I do believe they did the right thing because if they didn't they would all be wiped and become slaves again. 4.Amari found Afi a lady who reminded her of her mother afi helped teach amari how to be strong and how to not let them see you cry.Afi was a big factor in amari's survival because without her amari probably would have killed herself. 5.Clay became the new master of derby shire because a couple day's after mr. derby killed noah and his child and made tidbit, amari and polly leave teenie put poison in his food and killed him for all the things he did and exspecially for taking her kid from her. 6.The place the kids exscaped to was fort mose this place was run by the spanish and they didn't believe in slavery.The only reason they made it was because they ran south and all thle people trying to get them thought they were running north.

Part 4: 1. As I read Copper Sun I learned a few things about slavery I had not known previously. Not only are slaves forced to do whatever their master tells them to, but they are also used as sex slaves. Slaves are thought commonly thought of as people who are forced to work hard in fields, do house work, etc. I never realized that they are also raped. As you can tell, slavery is a terrible thing. Slaves have nothing to look forward to in there coming days, weeks, or even years. When a glimpse of happiness or hope appears they try to hold onto it as long as they can. I believe that Amari's hope was Afi. Afi played a big role in helping Amari along the way. When the two parted ways I'm sure Afi was on Amari's mind constanly. 2. Afi was most likely the main reason Amari survived while on the ship. Afi had been through this process before and knew what to expect. Afi helped Amari cope with how she was being treated and the disgusting conditions on the ship. Afi basically kept Amari running throughout the seemingly never ending ship ride. 3. Amari faced diversity from start to finish in this book. Amazingly though, Amari had survived all of it. Amari took all the whippings, rapings, and beatings given to her throughout the book. She was pushed to the absolute edge, but she did not break. Amari battled through anything thrown her way and she did the best that she could to simply live. The young 15 year old Amari was probably thought of as a weak and useless girl. I believe she surprised readers and herself by just living with everything she had been through.

Part 5: Essential Questions 1. Slavery is a form of forced labor in which people are considered to be, or treated as the property of others. Slavery once existed in many parts of the world and mainly occured in the south. It effected different people in many different ways. Women were kept away from the men and they were treated and disrespected worse then the men were. Slavery was a problem because not everyone agreed to having slavery. Some people liked the fact of owning an african american to do all their work but others didn't think it was right and went against it. Most African Americans in slavery were beaten, raped, held hostiage, and were forced to work as well as obey their masters who were the white people. Back then whites had more power than blacks. They could mainly do whatever they wanted an not get in as much trouble for it. Slaves were not suppose to be able to read or have much knowledge. They were expected to be unsuccessful and unknowledgable. They were not given an education like white children were. Some slaves knew how to read but tried keeping it a secret from the whites because they knew there would be consequences for their actions. Some slaves had trouble understanding certain languages other than the one they were raised to speak. Slaves who were from the same plantation would communicate through the languages they had in common or knew they could speak well. The masters or owners of the slaves would sometimes beat the slaves if they saw them communicating through another language because they could not understand what they were saying or could possibly be planning. Not everyone may agree to these kinds of actions or disadvantages, but it is something that took place in the world and had effects on all kinds of people around the world. 3. I think Amari was already brave for being at that age, and going through all of that. I think the reason she didn't fight back, because if she would have, she would have gotten herself into more trouble than she was already going through. Being in a situation like that, I probably wouldn't have fought back either. As much as you would want to by reading the book, actually being in that problem, would have been a different story. So, I think Amari did her best to fight through it.