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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 13 - 14.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What year does the author denote in the opening of Book Two, Chapter 7?
(a) 1775.
(b) 1802.
(c) 1774.
(d) 1757.

2. What is the title of Book Two, Chapter 10?
(a) Milk for the Longest Nursing.
(b) Words Swim Farther than a Man Can Walk.
(c) The Shape of Africa.
(d) Words Come Late from a Wet-nurse.

3. What is the name of the place that everyone tells Meena she is from in Book Two, Chapter 6?
(a) England.
(b) Africa.
(c) Ghana.
(d) Canada.

4. About what percentage of the people does Meena say were Muslim in her village growing up?
(a) 75%.
(b) 50%.
(c) 10%.
(d) 25%.

5. What word in the narrative is used to describe any of various gourds for carrying water or liquids?
(a) Luxane.
(b) Bururi.
(c) Alassane.
(d) Calabash.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mamed offer to teach Meena in Book Two, Chapter 7?

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

3. 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?

4. What is the language called that Georgia uses when talking to the whites in Book Two, Chapter 7?

5. Where do the British set up the enrollment area where blacks can line up for emigration and have their name recorded in the Book of Negroes in Book Three, Chapter 13?

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