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

2. How many years has it been since Meena has seen Chekura when he reappears in Book Three, Chapter 13?
(a) 3.
(b) 5.
(c) 9.
(d) 15.

3. What is the title of Book Three, Chapter 16?
(a) Elephants for Want of Towns.
(b) Three Revolutions of the Moon.
(c) They Call Me an ‘African’.
(d) Small Hands Were Good.

4. Who appears in court to demand a claim on Meena in Book Three, Chapter 13?
(a) Robinson Appleby.
(b) George Washington.
(c) Sam Fraunces.
(d) Colonel Baker.

5. Where was Sam, the proprietor of the hotel, born and raised, according to the narrator in Book Three, Chapter 12?
(a) Cuba.
(b) South Carolina.
(c) Jamaica.
(d) Trinidad.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old is Meena when she gives birth to her first child?

2. How far is Dolly in her pregnancy when Meena first meets her in Book Two, Chapter 9?

3. What is the name of the Bamana woman that Meena encounters during the walking journey in the New World in Book Two, Chapter 6?

4. It is the spring of what year that Meena says “the Methodists crammed into Daddy Moses’ chapel to listen to a visitor from Annapolis Royal” in Book Three, Chapter 16?

5. What is the title of Book Four, Chapter 19?

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