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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of the black community where Meena lives in Nova Scotia?
(a) Birchtown.
(b) Freetown.
(c) Charlotte.
(d) Shelburne.

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

3. 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) King Jimmy.
(b) Theo McArdle.
(c) William Armstrong.
(d) Scott Wilson.

4. Who is the governor of New York that Solomon has prepared a letter for in Book Three, Chapter 12?
(a) William Armstrong.
(b) Scott Wilson.
(c) Hector Smithers.
(d) William Tryon.

5. Who is the former slave author that Dr. Falconbridge’s wife suggests Meena write an autobiography like in Book Four, Chapter 18?
(a) Olaudah Equiano.
(b) Daddy Moses.
(c) King Jimmy.
(d) Scott Wilson.

6. How much money does the British military pay Meena per week to record names into the Book of Negroes in Book Three, Chapter 13?
(a) 1 pound.
(b) 2 pounds.
(c) 3 shillings.
(d) 5 shillings.

7. What ship does Dr. Falconbridge invite Meena to join him on to discuss matters in Book Four, Chapter 18?
(a) The Queen Charlotte.
(b) The Sierra Leone Packet.
(c) The Lucretia.
(d) The King George.

8. What section of the British peace treaty for the American Revolution stated that the British would not be taking "any Negroes or other Property of the American Inhabitants" in their retreat”?
(a) Section III
(b) Section X.
(c) Section VII.
(d) Section IX.

9. 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) The Medicine Man.
(b) Robinson Appleby.
(c) King Jimmy.
(d) Daddy Moses.

10. What is the title of the book Dr. Falconbridge wrote about his experiences as a surgeon on slave-ships?
(a) An Account of the Slave Trade on the Coast of Africa.
(b) Slave Trading in the Old South.
(c) To Purge this Land with Blood.
(d) The House of Bondage, or, Charlotte Brooks and Other Slaves.

11. How many years ago does Thomas Peters say he came to Nova Scotia in Book Three, Chapter 16?
(a) 7.
(b) 5.
(c) 2.
(d) 3.

12. When was the Dunmore's Proclamation signed?
(a) March 9, 1792.
(b) April 23, 1775.
(c) November 7, 1775.
(d) March 26, 1783.

13. What is the title of Book Four, Chapter 19?
(a) And Now I am Old.
(b) We Glide Over the Unburied.
(c) G is for Grant, and O for Oswald.
(d) Words Come Late from a Wet-nurse.

14. Where does Meena send her letter to Sam Fraunces in Book Three, Chapter 15?
(a) Mt. Vernon.
(b) Boston.
(c) New York.
(d) Chicago.

15. 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) 1802.
(b) 1790.
(c) 1777.
(d) 1789.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what location is Book Three, Chapter 11 set?

2. How many fingers is Chekura missing when he reappears in Book Three, Chapter 13?

3. Book Four, Chapter 20 opens in September of what year?

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

5. In what newspaper does Meena first see the notice from the Sierra Leone Company for free resettlement in Africa in Book Three, Chapter 16?

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