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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What year does the author denote in the opening of Book Three, Chapter 11?
(a) 1804.
(b) 1774.
(c) 1800.
(d) 1811.

2. What is the name of Meena’s employer at the print shop in Shelburne, Nova Scotia?
(a) Theo McArdle.
(b) John Clarkson.
(c) Robinson Appleby.
(d) Sam Fraunces.

3. How many years ago does Thomas Peters say he ran from the man who owned him in North Carolina in Book Three, Chapter 16?
(a) 14.
(b) 5.
(c) 7.
(d) 12.

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

5. 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.

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

7. What is the name of John Clarkson’s wife whom Meena befriends in Book Four, Chapter 21?
(a) Anna Maria.
(b) Mary.
(c) Susannah.
(d) Sarah.

8. Who is the Temne woman that tells Meena that the blacks in Meena’s colony are perceived by other Africans as "toubabu with black faces” in Book Four, Chapter 17?
(a) Fatima.
(b) Sanu.
(c) Tala.
(d) Nyeba.

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

10. How many years has it been since Meena first visited Bance Island and met William Armstrong in the beginning of Book Four, Chapter 20?
(a) 3.
(b) 8.
(c) 6.
(d) 5.

11. When Meena finally recognizes the song that is sung during the church service, she recalls who having sung it on the slave-ship in Book Three, Chapter 11?
(a) Robinson Appleby.
(b) King Jimmy.
(c) The Medicine Man.
(d) Daddy Moses.

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

13. What is Dr. Falconbridge’s wife’s name?
(a) Susanna.
(b) Sarah.
(c) Anna Maria.
(d) Alverna.

14. What year is denoted by the author in the opening of Book Three, Chapter 12?
(a) 1759.
(b) 1802.
(c) 1777.
(d) 1775.

15. Where does Meena begin teaching blacks to read and write in Book Three, Chapter 12?
(a) The New York Public Library.
(b) St. Peter’s Cathedral.
(c) St. Paul’s Chapel.
(d) St. Frances Chapel.

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. Where was Sam, the proprietor of the hotel, born and raised, according to the narrator in Book Three, Chapter 12?

3. Where do the British set up the enrollment area where blacks can line up for emigration and have their name recorded in the Book of Negroes in Book Three, Chapter 13?

4. 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?

5. What is the title of Book Four, Chapter 18?

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