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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What language does Meena’s father’s people speak?
(a) English.
(b) French.
(c) Gullah.
(d) Fulfulde.

3. Who is the king that Meena says she is to meet in Book One, Chapter 1?
(a) King Edward IV.
(b) King Charles II.
(c) King George III.
(d) King James I.

4. How old is Meena when she gives birth to her first child?
(a) 14.
(b) 16.
(c) 19.
(d) 18.

5. Who leaps overboard when her baby is killed during the uprising in Book One, Chapter 4?
(a) Fanta.
(b) Sanu.
(c) Fatima.
(d) Aminata.

6. Around what year does Meena say she was born in Book One, Chapter 1?
(a) 1745.
(b) 1774.
(c) 1802.
(d) 1757.

7. Who encourages Meena to learn the language of the white man but not to teach him theirs, in Book One, Chapter 4?
(a) Chief Biton.
(b) Fomba.
(c) Youssouf.
(d) Alassane.

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

9. How far is Dolly in her pregnancy when Meena first meets her in Book Two, Chapter 9?
(a) 4 months.
(b) 7 months.
(c) 8 months.
(d) 5 months.

10. What is the year that the author denotes in the opening of Book Two, Chapter 6?
(a) 1811.
(b) 1802.
(c) 1757.
(d) 1762.

11. In what year does Meena say a smallpox epidemic swept through her region, killing over 200 people, in Book Two, Chapter 10?
(a) 1798.
(b) 1802.
(c) 1774.
(d) 1776.

12. Meena insists to the abolitionists in Book Two, Chapter 5 that she cannot condemn the slave trade without condemning what as well?
(a) Africa.
(b) Slavery itself.
(c) The British.
(d) The Americans.

13. Sullivan’s Island is located off the coast of what U.S. state?
(a) South Carolina.
(b) Mississippi.
(c) North Carolina.
(d) Georgia.

14. What is the title of Book One, Chapter 2?
(a) Small Hands Were Good.
(b) They Call Me an ‘African’.
(c) The Shape of Africa.
(d) Words Swim Farther than a Man Can Walk.

15. What is the title of Book Two, Chapter 8?
(a) Milk for the Longest Nursing.
(b) We Glide Over the Unburied.
(c) Words Swim Farther than a Man Can Walk.
(d) Small Hands Were Good.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who among the slaves with Meena makes the greatest spectacle when being auctioned by fighting against the captors in Book Two, Chapter 6?

3. What year is denoted by the author in the opening of Book Two, Chapter 5?

4. Solomon Lindo tells Meena that they are both outsiders. Why does Lindo consider himself to be an outsider amongst his society?

5. What is the title of Book Two, Chapter 6?

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