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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 13 - 14.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the title of Book One, Chapter 2?
(a) The Shape of Africa.
(b) They Call Me an ‘African’.
(c) Small Hands Were Good.
(d) Words Swim Farther than a Man Can Walk.

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

3. When Meena finally recognizes the song that is sung during the church service, she recalls who having sung it on the slave-ship in Book Three, Chapter 11?
(a) The Medicine Man.
(b) Robinson Appleby.
(c) Daddy Moses.
(d) King Jimmy.

4. Who leaps overboard when her baby is killed during the uprising in Book One, Chapter 4?
(a) Sanu.
(b) Fanta.
(c) Fatima.
(d) Aminata.

5. What is the name of the village where Meena was born in the novel?
(a) Bururi.
(b) Kassam.
(c) Kinto.
(d) Bayo.

Short Answer Questions

1. How much money does the British military pay Meena per week to record names into the Book of Negroes in Book Three, Chapter 13?

2. How far is Dolly in her pregnancy when Meena first meets her in Book Two, Chapter 9?

3. What is the name of the black cellist that Meena and Solomon Lindo go to see in concert in Book Three, Chapter 12?

4. What is the holy book of Islam?

5. What language does Meena’s father’s people speak?

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