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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 11 - 12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the word that Meena uses to describe the storyteller in her village in Book One, Chapter 4?
(a) Bururi.
(b) Bayo.
(c) Djeli.
(d) Youssouf.

2. What is the title of Book One, Chapter 4?
(a) And Now I am Old.
(b) Small Hands Were Good.
(c) We Glide Over the Unburied.
(d) Three Revolutions of the Moon.

3. What year does the author denote in the opening of Book Two, Chapter 9?
(a) 1774.
(b) 1802.
(c) 1762.
(d) 1757.

4. What is the name of Appleby’s black assistant who takes over as overseer in Book Two, Chapter 7?
(a) Youssouf
(b) Mamed.
(c) Alassane.
(d) Nyeba.

5. What gift does Chekura give to Meena on his first visit to see her in Book Two, Chapter 7?
(a) A blue scarf.
(b) A red-striped kerchief.
(c) A ring made from metal.
(d) A seashell.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Sam, the proprietor of the hotel, born and raised, according to the narrator in Book Three, Chapter 12?

2. In what year does Meena say a smallpox epidemic swept through her region, killing over 200 people, in Book Two, Chapter 10?

3. Robinson Appleby’s indigo plantation is located on what island?

4. What language does Meena’s father’s people speak?

5. One of the abolitionists tells Meena in Book Two, Chapter 5 that the British people are still haunted by the bloody slave uprisings that have recently occurred where?

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