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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 3 - 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the title of Book One, Chapter 1?
(a) The Shape of Africa.
(b) We Glide Over the Unburied.
(c) Words Swim Farther than a Man Can Walk.
(d) And Now I am Old.

2. How does one of the captives commit suicide after his daughter has been killed by a wild animal in Book One, Chapter 3?
(a) He shoots himself.
(b) He stabs himself with a dagger.
(c) He leaps from a tree.
(d) He leaps from the ship.

3. What is the date listed by the author in the opening of Book One, Chapter 2?
(a) 1802.
(b) 1762.
(c) 1774.
(d) 1745.

4. Who kills the white man that has taken Meena as his assistant on the ship during the uprising in Book One, Chapter 4?
(a) Jimbo.
(b) Fomba.
(c) Fanta.
(d) Sanu.

5. Fanta is one of how many wives of the chief of Meena’s village?
(a) 6.
(b) 3.
(c) 4.
(d) 5.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Sanu name her baby in Book One, Chapter 3?

2. What is the holy book of Islam?

3. Who is the king that Meena says she is to meet in Book One, Chapter 1?

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. About what percentage of the people does Meena say were Muslim in her village growing up?

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