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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Alassane.
(d) Youssouf.

2. What year is denoted by the author in the opening of Book Two, Chapter 5?
(a) 1803.
(b) 1745.
(c) 1774.
(d) 1790.

3. 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?
(a) Bayo.
(b) St. Domingue.
(c) Cairo.
(d) St. Helena Island.

4. What is the name of the female slave that is taken on the walking journey along with Fomba and Meena in Book Two, Chapter 6?
(a) Sanu.
(b) Tala.
(c) Fanta.
(d) Fatima.

5. What is the name of Meena’s baby that was taken by Mr. Appleby and sold?
(a) Samuel.
(b) Fanta.
(c) Mamadu.
(d) Jimbo.

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

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

8. What is the title of Book One, Chapter 4?
(a) And Now I am Old.
(b) Three Revolutions of the Moon.
(c) We Glide Over the Unburied.
(d) Small Hands Were Good.

9. By what title does Meena refer to the white man on the ship that makes her his assistant in Book One, Chapter 4?
(a) The Bururi.
(b) The Ship Chief.
(c) The Medicine Man.
(d) The Kassam.

10. What is the language called that Georgia uses when talking to the whites in Book Two, Chapter 7?
(a) Spanish.
(b) Fulfulde.
(c) English.
(d) Gullah.

11. When was Charles Town founded in honor of King Charles II of England?
(a) 1670.
(b) 1598.
(c) 1802.
(d) 1762.

12. What is the name of Appleby’s black assistant who takes over as overseer in Book Two, Chapter 7?
(a) Youssouf
(b) Alassane.
(c) Nyeba.
(d) Mamed.

13. What is the title of Book One, Chapter 3?
(a) Three Revolutions of the Moon.
(b) The Shape of Africa.
(c) Words Come Late from a Wet-nurse.
(d) They Call Me an ‘African’.

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

15. What is the title of Book One, Chapter 1?
(a) And Now I am Old.
(b) The Shape of Africa.
(c) Words Swim Farther than a Man Can Walk.
(d) We Glide Over the Unburied.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the holy book of Islam?

2. What is the name of the slave giving birth when Meena and Georgia go to assist her birth in Book Two, Chapter 7?

3. Whom does Meena say she has instructed to change none of her words in the story of her life, in Book One, Chapter 1?

4. Fanta is one of how many wives of the chief of Meena’s village?

5. What was Meena’s mother’s job in the village where Meena grew up?

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