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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter Eight: "H" .

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Ness protect Kojo?
(a) She sends the boy to live with his grandma.
(b) She leaves the boy on the plantation to be raised by Susann Stockham.
(c) She kills the boy herself.
(d) She tells the Devil the boy is dead.

2. What is the daily coal quota each man must meet?
(a) Twenty pounds.
(b) Fourteen thousand pounds.
(c) Two thousand pounds.
(d) Ten tons.

3. Where does Esi spend her fifteenth birthday?
(a) Working on a plantation with other slaves.
(b) At a quiet dinner on Big Man's Compound.
(c) At a large party with her family and friends.
(d) The slave dungeon of the Cape Coast Castle.

4. What does Maame reveal to Esi when the village is attacked?
(a) Maame set the fire the night of Effia's birth.
(b) Maame is waiting for Abronoma's father.
(c) Maame wants to die alone.
(d) Maame is not Esi's real mother.

5. When is H sold as a convict to work in the mines?
(a) July, 1980.
(b) July, 1880.
(c) July, 1965.
(d) July, 1865.

Short Answer Questions

1. How is "all time equal" (30) in the dungeons?

2. What was Ness's original name?

3. How do the mine bosses replace the striking miners?

4. Why does Big Man beat Abronoma?

5. How does James Collins treat the female slaves?

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