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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. When was James born?
(a) 1819.
(b) 1919.
(c) 1807.
(d) 1907.

4. Who are Esi's parents?
(a) Cobbe Otcher and Effia.
(b) Big Man and Maame.
(c) James Collins and Maame.
(d) Maame and a servant man.

5. Why does the Freeman family stay in Baltimore?
(a) Ma Aku begs them to stay.
(b) There are no jobs farther North.
(c) The children do not want to switch schools.
(d) Anna is too pregnant to leave.

Short Answer Questions

1. The novel opens in what place?

2. What was Ness's original name?

3. What secret does Effia discover on her wedding night?

4. What does Maame reveal to Esi when the village is attacked?

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

(see the answer key)

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