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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Mr. Appleby do after he sends Georgia away to attend a birth without Meena in Book Two, Chapter 7?
(a) He sells Meena.
(b) He kills Meena.
(c) He rapes Meena.
(d) He reads to Meena.

2. What is the name of the village that Chekura says he’s from in Book One, Chapter 3?
(a) Kassam.
(b) Birchtown.
(c) Bayo.
(d) Kinta.

3. What is the date listed by the author in the opening of Book One, Chapter 2?
(a) 1745.
(b) 1774.
(c) 1762.
(d) 1802.

4. How does one of the captives commit suicide after his daughter has been killed by a wild animal in Book One, Chapter 3?
(a) He stabs himself with a dagger.
(b) He leaps from a tree.
(c) He leaps from the ship.
(d) He shoots himself.

5. What is Meena’s father by trade when she is a young girl?
(a) A slave-trader.
(b) A jeweler.
(c) The village chief.
(d) A medicine man.

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

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

8. What language does Meena’s father’s people speak?
(a) Gullah.
(b) English.
(c) Fulfulde.
(d) French.

9. Around what year does Meena say she was born in Book One, Chapter 1?
(a) 1757.
(b) 1802.
(c) 1745.
(d) 1774.

10. Who is the king that Meena says she is to meet in Book One, Chapter 1?
(a) King Edward IV.
(b) King George III.
(c) King James I.
(d) King Charles II.

11. What is the title of Book Two, Chapter 9?
(a) Small Hands Were Good.
(b) Three Revolutions of the Moon.
(c) The Shape of Africa.
(d) Words Swim Farther than a Man Can Walk.

12. By what name does Dolly refer to the estate owned by Solomon Lindo?
(a) Lindo House.
(b) Lindoville.
(c) Lindotown.
(d) Lindo Manor.

13. What visitor of Mr. Appleby’s attempts to rape Meena in Book Two, Chapter 8?
(a) William King.
(b) Hector Smithers.
(c) Thomas Peters.
(d) Scott Wilson.

14. What term does Solomon Lindo tell Meena he prefers to use, rather than “slave,” in Book Two, Chapter 9?
(a) Worker.
(b) Servant.
(c) Housekeeper.
(d) Secretary.

15. Who kills the white man that has taken Meena as his assistant on the ship during the uprising in Book One, Chapter 4?
(a) Sanu.
(b) Fomba.
(c) Fanta.
(d) Jimbo.

Short Answer Questions

1. The man that takes Meena as his assistant on the slave ship has what kind of pet in his quarters?

2. What is the holy book of Islam?

3. What is the name of the son Dolly gives birth to in Book Two, Chapter 9?

4. What is the name of the slave giving birth when Meena and Georgia go to assist her birth in Book Two, Chapter 7?

5. What is the name of the Bamana woman that Meena encounters during the walking journey in the New World in Book Two, Chapter 6?

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