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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 is Meena’s father by trade when she is a young girl?
(a) A jeweler.
(b) The village chief.
(c) A medicine man.
(d) A slave-trader.

2. What is the title of Book Three, Chapter 11?
(a) They Call Me an ‘African’.
(b) Three Revolutions of the Moon.
(c) Nations Not So Blest as Thee.
(d) We Glide Over the Unburied.

3. Who among the slaves with Meena makes the greatest spectacle when being auctioned by fighting against the captors in Book Two, Chapter 6?
(a) Fomba.
(b) Alassane.
(c) Fanta.
(d) Sanu.

4. What concoction does Georgia give to Meena to drink after her first sexual experience in Book Two, Chapter 8?
(a) Vinegar and iodine.
(b) Foxglove and pennyroyal.
(c) Tansy and cedar berries.
(d) Cherry pits and coal.

5. What is the name of the language that Georgia teaches Meena that is just used amongst the slaves in Book Two, Chapter 7?
(a) Gullah.
(b) English.
(c) Spanish.
(d) Fulfulde.

Short Answer Questions

1. What word in the narrative is used to describe any of various gourds for carrying water or liquids?

2. Whom does Meena describe in Book Two, Chapter 5 as “the jolly abolitionist”?

3. Where was Sam, the proprietor of the hotel, born and raised, according to the narrator in Book Three, Chapter 12?

4. What is the title of Book Two, Chapter 8?

5. When Meena finally recognizes the song that is sung during the church service, she recalls who having sung it on the slave-ship in Book Three, Chapter 11?

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