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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Esi's nickname after her capture into slavery?
(a) Ugly.
(b) Frownie.
(c) Smilie.
(d) Beauty.

2. How does Tansi comfort Esi?
(a) By telling her stories of Anansi and the kente cloth.
(b) By brushing Esi's hair.
(c) By singing songs in Twi.
(d) By telling her that the soldiers will kill them if they are loud.

3. Who is Ness's mother?
(a) Effia.
(b) Abronoma.
(c) Susan.
(d) Esi.

4. Why does Ness continue to work in the fields?
(a) Margaret hates her.
(b) Susan Stockham forbids her to work in the house.
(c) Ness chooses field work.
(d) Her scars are too grotesque and visible.

5. Why does the Devil beat Ness the first time?
(a) She is insolent with the Devil.
(b) Sam blames her for his lack of English.
(c) The Devil does not like her use of Twi.
(d) She takes the blame for Sam's destruction.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. As Esi is bound for the ship, how does she feel about the smile of any white man?

3. Whom does Fiifi capture and keep?

4. Where is Thomas Allan Stockham's plantation?

5. Why do the Northerners begin to scar the faces of their children?

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