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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Two: Polly.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the Ewe tribe's kente cloth design?
(a) Animals and shapes.
(b) Letters and warriors.
(c) Pineapples and grasshoppers.
(d) Birds and snakes.

2. Why might Afi be drawn to Amari?
(a) Afi is from Amari's village.
(b) Amari has special privileges from the guards.
(c) Amari has access to food.
(d) Afi had a daughter Amari's age.

3. How do the women eat in the holding area in Part One?
(a) They kindly share whatever they are offered.
(b) They are fed plentiful portions of their favorite foods.
(c) There is no food to be found at the Cape Coast Castle.
(d) They fight and grab for the scraps of bread thrown to them.

4. How did Polly's parents die?
(a) Consumption.
(b) Measles.
(c) Smallpox.
(d) Plague.

5. Where did Polly grow up?
(a) Baltimore.
(b) Charles Towne.
(c) Africa.
(d) Beaufort.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is not part of the Ewe definition of hospitality?

2. What advice does Afi give Amari about Besa?

3. What "skill" does Amari possess that makes her valuable?

4. Why does an Ashanti warrior claim that he is partaking in this sort of torture of the Ewe tribe?

5. What is the reader's first hint at Polly's character in Part Two?

(see the answer key)

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