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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What is the title of Book Two, Chapter 8?
2. What wild animal kills the daughter of one of the captives in Book One, Chapter 3?
3. How old does Chekura say he is in Book One, Chapter 3?
4. What is the name of the language that Georgia teaches Meena that is just used amongst the slaves in Book Two, Chapter 7?
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?
Short Essay Questions
1. How is Aminata’s new situation described in the beginning of Book Two, Chapter 9?
2. What does Aminata asks Chekura to do when she begins menstruating in Book One, Chapter 3?
3. Where and when does Book One, Chapter 1 open? How does the narrator introduce herself in this chapter?
4. When does Meena have her first child in Book Two, Chapter 8? How is this experience described?
5. Whose deaths does Meena describe hearing about through the fishnet in the beginning of Book Two, Chapter 10?
6. How does Aminata describe the history of storytellers in her village in Book One, Chapter 4?
7. How is the procedure of the slave auction described in Book Two, Chapter 6?
8. Why is Aminata given the name “Meena” by the other slaves on the plantation in Book Two, Chapter 7?
9. Who oversees the slaves at Appleby’s plantation in Book Two, Chapter 7? How many slaves does Meena describe there?
10. What is Meena’s full name? Why is she located in her current setting in Book One, Chapter 1?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss the characters of Fanta and Chekura in the narrative. How old are Chekura and Fanta? How did Chekura come to work for the slave-traders? How does Fanta stand apart among the captives? How does the relationship between Chekura and Aminata develop?
Essay Topic 2
Discuss the setting of early 19th Century London. Why does Aminata say she is in London in Book One, Chapter 1? How was the abolitionist cause defined at this time in Great Britain? How does Aminata describe her living arrangements here?
Essay Topic 3
Discuss the American Revolutionary War on the lives of black Americans. For free blacks, like those living in Canvas Town, how did the war impact their everyday lives? What did the war represent to slaves in the South?
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