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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Big Man get his name?
(a) By being the biggest man in the village.
(b) By offering his apologies.
(c) By growing up the fattest boy in the village.
(d) By taking the most captives.

2. What is special about Millicent?
(a) She can dance and sing better than all the village girls.
(b) She can speak English fluently.
(c) She is the daughter of a village woman and British man.
(d) She knows how to use the black stones for magic.

3. As Esi is bound for the ship, how does she feel about the smile of any white man?
(a) As though he might be able to help her.
(b) As though it is a sign of terrible things to come.
(c) As though he might kill her.
(d) As though freedom might actually come.

4. What secret does Effia discover on her wedding night?
(a) Humans kept captive under the Cape Coast Castle.
(b) No one can leave the Cape Coast Castle.
(c) James is not allowed in the Cape Coast Castle.
(d) Ghosts inhabiting the Cape Coast Castle.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Abronoma's nickname?

2. What happens to Esi in the soldier's quarters?

3. When a man wants to marry a village girl, what is a gift he does NOT offer the family?

4. What causes Maame to slap Esi and yell at her?

5. Why do the English men call their African wives "wenches?"

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