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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 year that the author denotes in the opening of Book Two, Chapter 6?
(a) 1757.
(b) 1802.
(c) 1811.
(d) 1762.

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

3. Sullivan’s Island is located off the coast of what U.S. state?
(a) Mississippi.
(b) North Carolina.
(c) Georgia.
(d) South Carolina.

4. Where is the narrator of the novel located in Book One, Chapter 1?
(a) Sullivan Island.
(b) London.
(c) Bayo.
(d) Kinto.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. What is the title of Book One, Chapter 3?

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

4. Around what year does Meena say she was born in Book One, Chapter 1?

5. Meena insists to the abolitionists in Book Two, Chapter 5 that she cannot condemn the slave trade without condemning what as well?

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