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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 5 - 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What year is noted in the opening of Book One, Chapter 1?
(a) 1802.
(b) 1807.
(c) 1752.
(d) 1745.

4. What is the holy book of Islam?
(a) The Qur’an.
(b) The Rigveda.
(c) The Ginza Rba.
(d) The Torah.

5. What word is used by Meena and the Africans to describe the white man in Book One, Chapter 3?
(a) Fulfulde.
(b) Toubab.
(c) Buckra.
(d) Gullah.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the title of Book One, Chapter 3?

2. From what people does Meena say her father came in Book One, Chapter 2?

3. What is the name of the Bamana woman that Meena encounters during the walking journey in the New World in Book Two, Chapter 6?

4. Who encourages Meena to learn the language of the white man but not to teach him theirs, in Book One, Chapter 4?

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

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