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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 17 - 19.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the title of Book Two, Chapter 8?
(a) We Glide Over the Unburied.
(b) Words Swim Farther than a Man Can Walk.
(c) Small Hands Were Good.
(d) Milk for the Longest Nursing.

2. On what date does Meena say she and Chekura conceived their second child in Book Three, Chapter 13?
(a) August 15, 1783.
(b) April 23, 1775.
(c) November 7, 1775.
(d) November 7, 1783.

3. Who finally tells Meena that the Weatherspoons departed on a ship with Meena’s daughter in Book Three, Chapter 15?
(a) Jason.
(b) Samuel.
(c) Daddy Moses.
(d) Theo McArdle.

4. What is the title of Book Two, Chapter 10?
(a) The Shape of Africa.
(b) Milk for the Longest Nursing.
(c) Words Come Late from a Wet-nurse.
(d) Words Swim Farther than a Man Can Walk.

5. What is the title of Book Two, Chapter 9?
(a) Three Revolutions of the Moon.
(b) The Shape of Africa.
(c) Words Swim Farther than a Man Can Walk.
(d) Small Hands Were Good.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the title of Book Three, Chapter 16?

2. What does Mr. Appleby do after he sends Georgia away to attend a birth without Meena in Book Two, Chapter 7?

3. What name does Meena give her daughter in Book Three, Chapter 15?

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

5. Who runs the port at Bance Island and introduces Meena to the traders who might act as guides inland for her in Book Four, Chapter 19?

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