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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many passengers on Meena’s ship die on the voyage to Africa in Book Four, Chapter 17?
(a) 5.
(b) 7.
(c) 12.
(d) 3.

2. How long do Meena and her daughter stay at the Witherspoons before the rioting is said to have ended and Meena goes to see if her home is still standing in Book Three, Chapter 15?
(a) 7 days.
(b) 5 days.
(c) 4 days.
(d) 6 days.

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

4. What is Meena’s father by trade when she is a young girl?
(a) A slave-trader.
(b) A medicine man.
(c) The village chief.
(d) A jeweler.

5. Who is the Temne chief that sends canoes out to the Sierra Leone fleet to bring the passengers ashore in Book Four, Chapter 17?
(a) King Mamadu.
(b) King Jimmy.
(c) Chief Nyeba.
(d) Olaudah Equiano.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the ship that Meena and John Clarkson take to Africa in Book Four, Chapter 17?

2. What wild animal kills the daughter of one of the captives in Book One, Chapter 3?

3. What is the year that the author denotes in the opening of Book Two, Chapter 6?

4. How much money does the British military pay Meena per week to record names into the Book of Negroes in Book Three, Chapter 13?

5. What is Book Three, Chapter 12’s title?

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