Q 01/05

In the prologue of Octavia Butler's Kindred, which part of her body has Dana lost on her final trip home?

A) Her right hand

B) Her left arm

C) Her left leg

D) Her right eye

Answer · why

B) Her left arm

Her left arm is crushed into the wall of her house at the spot where Rufus was gripping it. Butler said she could not let Dana come back whole, becaus...

Q 02/05

In Kindred, Dana is pulled back in time to the Weylin plantation on the Eastern Shore of which state?

A) Virginia

B) Georgia

C) Maryland

D) South Carolina

Answer · why

C) Maryland

Maryland is where Butler went for field research, wandering Talbot County on the Eastern Shore before writing. Dana learns where she is on her second ...

Q 03/05

On her first trip to the past in Kindred, Dana saves the young, red-haired Rufus from which danger?

A) A snakebite

B) A runaway horse

C) A barn fire

D) Drowning

Answer · why

D) Drowning

Drowning nearly kills Rufus as a small boy, and Dana wades into the river and revives him on the bank. His mother repays her by screaming and hitting ...

Q 04/05

What must Dana feel before the dizziness in Kindred will carry her from the plantation back to 1976?

A) Terror of dying

B) Longing for her husband

C) Pity for Rufus

D) Total exhaustion

Answer · why

A) Terror of dying

Terror of dying is the only thing that sends Dana home, just as mortal danger to Rufus is what summons her. As she grows used to plantation violence, ...

Q 05/05

When Kevin travels to the past with Dana in Kindred, what does he pretend to be to keep her safe?

A) A slave trader

B) Her owner

C) A circuit preacher

D) A country doctor

Answer · why

B) Her owner

Her owner is the part Dana herself tells Kevin to play, moments after Rufus reacts with violent disbelief to hearing they are married. The act works w...