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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 20 - 22.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the title of Book Four, Chapter 17?
(a) Toubab with Black Face.
(b) The Shape of Africa.
(c) Elephants for Want of Towns.
(d) They Come and Go from Holy Ground.

2. Whom does Dolly describe as “the boss woman” of the white people and also “the Black Queen” in Book Two, Chapter 9?
(a) Queen Virginia.
(b) Queen Charlotte.
(c) Queen Elizabeth.
(d) Queen Mary.

3. 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?
(a) St. Paul’s Chapel.
(b) The Fraunces Tavern.
(c) The New York Public Library.
(d) Ma Rainey’s Boarding House.

4. By what name does Dolly refer to the estate owned by Solomon Lindo?
(a) Lindo Manor.
(b) Lindoville.
(c) Lindotown.
(d) Lindo House.

5. Where is the location of the offices of the Committee for the Abolition of the Slave Trade that Meena is taken to in Book Four, Chapter 21?
(a) 14 Thames Avenue.
(b) 233 Old Mission Blvd.
(c) 18 Old Jewry Street.
(d) 34 Waterbury Lane.

Short Answer Questions

1. What handicap does Fomba develop on the journey of the slave-ship?

2. What is the name of the village where Meena was born in the novel?

3. Who is the village chief in the village where Meena recovers after fleeing from the slave-traders in Book Four, Chapter 20?

4. When does the narrator say the British cut off provisions to the colony in Nova Scotia in Book Three, Chapter 15?

5. Where does Meena send her letter to Sam Fraunces in Book Three, Chapter 15?

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