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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 is the title of Book Two, Chapter 6?
(a) Three Revolutions of the Moon.
(b) They Call Me an ‘African’.
(c) We Glide Over the Unburied.
(d) And Now I am Old.

2. 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) St. Helena Island.
(c) Cairo.
(d) Bayo.

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

4. Whom does Meena describe in Book Two, Chapter 5 as “the jolly abolitionist”?
(a) Scott Wilson.
(b) Sir Stanley Hastings.
(c) Thomas Peters.
(d) William Armstrong.

5. What is the title of Book One, Chapter 2?
(a) They Call Me an ‘African’.
(b) Small Hands Were Good.
(c) The Shape of Africa.
(d) Words Swim Farther than a Man Can Walk.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the word that Meena uses to describe the storyteller in her village in Book One, Chapter 4?

2. What is the name of the female slave that is taken on the walking journey along with Fomba and Meena in Book Two, Chapter 6?

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

4. By what title does Meena refer to the white man on the ship that makes her his assistant in Book One, Chapter 4?

5. From what people does Meena describe her mother coming from in Book One, Chapter 2?

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