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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 name of the Bamana woman that Meena encounters during the walking journey in the New World in Book Two, Chapter 6?
(a) Fanta.
(b) Alassane.
(c) Nyeba.
(d) Tala.

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

3. From what people does Meena say her father came in Book One, Chapter 2?
(a) The Fula people.
(b) The Somali people.
(c) The Oromo people.
(d) The Bamana people.

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

5. Whom does Meena describe in Book Two, Chapter 5 as “the jolly abolitionist”?
(a) Thomas Peters.
(b) William Armstrong.
(c) Sir Stanley Hastings.
(d) Scott Wilson.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who among the slaves with Meena makes the greatest spectacle when being auctioned by fighting against the captors in Book Two, Chapter 6?

2. One of the abolitionists tells Meena in Book Two, Chapter 5 that the British people are still haunted by the bloody slave uprisings that have recently occurred where?

3. Sullivan’s Island is located off the coast of what U.S. state?

4. What is the name of the village that Chekura says he’s from in Book One, Chapter 3?

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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