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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Esi learn from Abronoma about Maame's past?
(a) Maame is actually Abronoma's mother and has given her a stone.
(b) Maame is actually a princess who abandoned her her kingdom.
(c) Maame is a fugitive slave girl and has another daughter.
(d) Maame does not love Big Man and plans to run away.

2. What is the name of James Collins's British wife?
(a) Emily.
(b) Charlotte.
(c) Elizabeth.
(d) Anne.

3. Abeeku says that, under his rule, the village will not work for the British. What does he claim they will do instead?
(a) Work with the British.
(b) Overthrow the British.
(c) Become the British.
(d) Ignore the British.

4. What catastrophe occurs the night Effia is born?
(a) An invasion.
(b) A murder.
(c) A flood.
(d) A fire.

5. Why do the English men call their African wives "wenches?"
(a) Their commanders teach them that rule.
(b) They do not care about the African women.
(c) Their British women are their true wives.
(d) They cannot pronounce the Fante for "wife."

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to Esi's stone?

2. What does Baaba ask Effia to hide from everyone else?

3. What is Abeeku's nickname for Effia?

4. Why does Maame try to refuse a house servant?

5. Esi is from what African tribe?

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