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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 9 - 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What word is used by Meena and the Africans to describe the white man in Book One, Chapter 3?
(a) Toubab.
(b) Buckra.
(c) Fulfulde.
(d) Gullah.

2. Whom does Meena say she has instructed to change none of her words in the story of her life, in Book One, Chapter 1?
(a) Scott Wilson.
(b) Hector Smithers.
(c) Olaudah Equiano.
(d) John Clarkson.

3. What is the name of the Bamana woman that Meena encounters during the walking journey in the New World in Book Two, Chapter 6?
(a) Fanta.
(b) Alassane.
(c) Nyeba.
(d) Tala.

4. What is the title of Book One, Chapter 4?
(a) Three Revolutions of the Moon.
(b) We Glide Over the Unburied.
(c) And Now I am Old.
(d) Small Hands Were Good.

5. Meena insists to the abolitionists in Book Two, Chapter 5 that she cannot condemn the slave trade without condemning what as well?
(a) The British.
(b) Slavery itself.
(c) Africa.
(d) The Americans.

Short Answer Questions

1. How is Meena’s father killed by the captors?

2. Solomon Lindo tells Meena that they are both outsiders. Why does Lindo consider himself to be an outsider amongst his society?

3. What is the name of the female slave that is taken on the walking journey along with Fomba and Meena in Book Two, Chapter 6?

4. What symbols does Meena have carved into her cheeks?

5. When Meena goes with Georgia to assist in the birthing of another slave’s baby in Book Two, Chapter 7, the slave giving birth only speaks what language?

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