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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part IV (Pages 181 - 240).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Norman teach June Dey to do in order to survive more easily?
(a) Build a fire.
(b) Fish.
(c) Pound papayas into food.
(d) Hunt deer.

2. Who is the first girl Gbessa meets in Monrovia?
(a) Henrietta.
(b) Ernestine.
(c) Maisy.
(d) Marlene.

3. What thoughts go hand-in-hand from Gbessa's past in her mind in Part IV?
(a) Witches and Ol' Ma Famatta.
(b) Lai and Safua.
(c) School and Khati.
(d) Her father and Gerald.

4. Who does Norman find and carry to safety in the road soon after he meets June Dey?
(a) Gbessa.
(b) Maisy.
(c) Marlene.
(d) Henrietta.

5. What does Gbessa chant to herself on the ship?
(a) Gbessa the witch.
(b) Gbessa the king.
(c) Gbessa the great.
(d) Gbessa the queen.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Dey show Charlotte in the cemetery?

2. Why does Charlotte think all the other slaves ignore her?

3. What is one of the first things Maisy teaches Gbessa to do?

4. Who is especially hurt by Mistress Emerson's abrupt selling of slaves to a neighboring plantation?

5. Who does Charlotte think is particularly unkind to her?

(see the answer key)

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