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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 3?
(a) Three Revolutions of the Moon.
(b) Words Come Late from a Wet-nurse.
(c) The Shape of Africa.
(d) They Call Me an ‘African’.

2. What symbols does Meena have carved into her cheeks?
(a) Lion’s faces.
(b) Crescent moons.
(c) Five-pointed stars.
(d) Suns.

3. What is Meena’s full name in the novel?
(a) Aminata Diallo.
(b) Amanita Equiano.
(c) Amanita Maria.
(d) Aminata Amiki.

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) Sanu.
(c) Fanta.
(d) Fomba.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the title of Book One, Chapter 2?

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

3. How old does Chekura say he is in Book One, Chapter 3?

4. Where is the narrator of the novel located in Book One, Chapter 1?

5. Whom does Meena say she has instructed to change none of her words in the story of her life, in Book One, Chapter 1?

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