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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What term does Solomon Lindo tell Meena he prefers to use, rather than “slave,” in Book Two, Chapter 9?
(a) Servant.
(b) Housekeeper.
(c) Worker.
(d) Secretary.

3. From what people does Meena describe her mother coming from in Book One, Chapter 2?
(a) The Oromo people.
(b) The Bamana people.
(c) The Fula people.
(d) The Somali people.

4. What does Mamed offer to teach Meena in Book Two, Chapter 7?
(a) How to read.
(b) How to sow oats.
(c) How to ride a horse.
(d) How to run away.

5. 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 Mary.
(d) Queen Elizabeth.

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

7. What visitor of Mr. Appleby’s attempts to rape Meena in Book Two, Chapter 8?
(a) Thomas Peters.
(b) Hector Smithers.
(c) William King.
(d) Scott Wilson.

8. With whose child does Meena become pregnant in Book Two, Chapter 8?
(a) Mr. Appleby’s.
(b) Chekura’s.
(c) Youssouf’s.
(d) Fomba’s.

9. How far along in her pregnancy does Meena surmise Fanta is in Book One, Chapter 3?
(a) 6 months.
(b) 5 months.
(c) 7 months.
(d) 8 months.

10. In what city does Solomon Lindo live when he purchases Meena?
(a) Baton Rouge.
(b) Savannah.
(c) Georgetown.
(d) Charles Town.

11. Who kills the white man that has taken Meena as his assistant on the ship during the uprising in Book One, Chapter 4?
(a) Fanta.
(b) Fomba.
(c) Jimbo.
(d) Sanu.

12. What is the holy book of Islam?
(a) The Rigveda.
(b) The Qur’an.
(c) The Ginza Rba.
(d) The Torah.

13. Where is the narrator of the novel located in Book One, Chapter 1?
(a) Kinto.
(b) Sullivan Island.
(c) Bayo.
(d) London.

14. Whom does Dolly describe as “the Boss man of the whole land” in Book Two, Chapter 9?
(a) King Henry IX.
(b) President Adams.
(c) King Charles III.
(d) Thomas Jefferson.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the title of Book One, Chapter 3?

2. What is the word that Meena uses to describe the storyteller in her village in Book One, Chapter 4?

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

4. What is the title of Book One, Chapter 1?

5. One of the abolitionists tells Meena in Book Two, Chapter 5 that the British people are still haunted by the bloody slave uprisings that have recently occurred where?

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