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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 9 - 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Solomon Lindo tells Meena that they are both outsiders. Why does Lindo consider himself to be an outsider amongst his society?
(a) Because he is mulatto.
(b) Because he is English.
(c) Because he is Muslim.
(d) Because he is Jewish.

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?
(a) St. Domingue.
(b) St. Helena Island.
(c) Cairo.
(d) Bayo.

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

4. What is the title of Book Two, Chapter 9?
(a) Small Hands Were Good.
(b) The Shape of Africa.
(c) Three Revolutions of the Moon.
(d) Words Swim Farther than a Man Can Walk.

5. What initials were branded into Meena’s chest when she was abducted and sold into slavery?
(a) B.R.
(b) A.D.
(c) G.O.
(d) M.O.

Short Answer Questions

1. What visitor of Mr. Appleby’s attempts to rape Meena in Book Two, Chapter 8?

2. What year does the author denote in the opening of Book Two, Chapter 7?

3. What was Meena’s mother’s job in the village where Meena grew up?

4. What language does Meena’s father’s people speak?

5. What symbols does Meena have carved into her cheeks?

(see the answer key)

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