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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. On what date does Meena read the British peace treaty for the American Revolution to her friends in Canvas Town in Book Three, Chapter 13?
(a) April 23, 1775.
(b) November 7, 1775.
(c) March 26, 1783.
(d) March 9, 1792.

2. What is the title of Book Three, Chapter 11?
(a) They Call Me an ‘African’.
(b) Nations Not So Blest as Thee.
(c) We Glide Over the Unburied.
(d) Three Revolutions of the Moon.

3. What is the title of Book Four, Chapter 18?
(a) Help from the Saints.
(b) We Glide Over the Unburied.
(c) Words Come Late from a Wet-nurse.
(d) And Now I am Old.

4. What is the title of Book Four, Chapter 20?
(a) Toubab with Black Face.
(b) God Willing.
(c) The Shape of Africa.
(d) And Now I am Old.

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) 34 Waterbury Lane.
(b) 233 Old Mission Blvd.
(c) 14 Thames Avenue.
(d) 18 Old Jewry Street.

6. What name does Meena give her daughter in Book Three, Chapter 15?
(a) May.
(b) Tala.
(c) Sanu.
(d) Georgia.

7. Whom does Meena describe attending a church service with in Book Three, Chapter 11?
(a) Sir Stanley Hastings.
(b) Solomon Lindo.
(c) Alverna Witherspoon.
(d) Daddy Moses.

8. 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?
(a) 1790.
(b) 1802.
(c) 1789.
(d) 1777.

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

10. How many passengers start out on the ship that Meena takes to Africa in Book Four, Chapter 17?
(a) 200.
(b) 150.
(c) 75.
(d) 100.

11. How long do Meena and her daughter stay at the Witherspoons before the rioting is said to have ended and Meena goes to see if her home is still standing in Book Three, Chapter 15?
(a) 6 days.
(b) 5 days.
(c) 4 days.
(d) 7 days.

12. What is the neighborhood called that is made up of shacks owned by free or escaped blacks in New York in Book Three, Chapter 12?
(a) Canvas Town.
(b) Harlem.
(c) Shantytown.
(d) The East Village.

13. Who runs the port at Bance Island and introduces Meena to the traders who might act as guides inland for her in Book Four, Chapter 19?
(a) Theo McArdle.
(b) King Jimmy.
(c) William Armstrong.
(d) Scott Wilson.

14. Where does Sam tell Meena to hide out for three days in Book Three, Chapter 12?
(a) The church on Broadway.
(b) The cellar of his tavern.
(c) Canvas Town.
(d) The woods north of the city.

15. When does the narrator say the British cut off provisions to the colony in Nova Scotia in Book Three, Chapter 15?
(a) November, 1789.
(b) March, 1765.
(c) September, 1777.
(d) July, 1787.

Short Answer Questions

1. One requirement for relocation by the British was having served the British forces for how long during the Revolutionary War?

2. In what year does Book Four, Chapter 21 begin?

3. What is the title of Book Four, Chapter 21?

4. On what date does Meena’s ship sail into St. George’s Bay in Book Four, Chapter 17?

5. Who does Sam say plans to make him head chef at his residence in Mt. Vernon in Book Three, Chapter 13?

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