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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 does Sanu name her baby in Book One, Chapter 3?
(a) Youssouf.
(b) Samuel.
(c) Alassane.
(d) Aminata.

2. What is the name of the place that everyone tells Meena she is from in Book Two, Chapter 6?
(a) Canada.
(b) Africa.
(c) England.
(d) Ghana.

3. What does Solomon Lindo refer to as the system he is putting Meena on, wherein she will work for her wages?
(a) The self-hire system.
(b) The servant system.
(c) The out-pay system.
(d) The indentured servant system.

4. 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?
(a) St. Domingue.
(b) Cairo.
(c) St. Helena Island.
(d) Bayo.

5. The War of Jenkins’ Ear was a battle between what two countries?
(a) France and England.
(b) England and Spain.
(c) France and Spain.
(d) England and the Dutch.

Short Answer Questions

1. What visitor of Mr. Appleby’s attempts to rape Meena in Book Two, Chapter 8?

2. Whom does Dolly describe as “the boss woman” of the white people and also “the Black Queen” in Book Two, Chapter 9?

3. In what location is Book Three, Chapter 11 set?

4. How far along in her pregnancy does Meena surmise Fanta is in Book One, Chapter 3?

5. What is the name of the black cellist that Meena and Solomon Lindo go to see in concert in Book Three, Chapter 12?

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