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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) The East Village.
(b) Canvas Town.
(c) Harlem.
(d) Shantytown.

2. Where is the Joseph departing for when it leaves New York in Book Three, Chapter 13?
(a) Sierra Leone.
(b) Annapolis Royal.
(c) Birchtown.
(d) Shelburne.

3. What is the title of Book Three, Chapter 15?
(a) My Children were Like Phantom Limbs.
(b) They Come and Go from Holy Ground.
(c) The Shape of Africa.
(d) Nations Not So Blest as Thee.

4. Who is shot by soldiers from the Sierra Leone Company as he attempts to help captives being led to slavery in Book Four, Chapter 17?
(a) Scott Wilson.
(b) Alassane.
(c) Youssouf.
(d) Olaudah Equiano.

5. Who does Sam say plans to make him head chef at his residence in Mt. Vernon in Book Three, Chapter 13?
(a) William McKinley.
(b) Samuel Adams.
(c) Thomas Jefferson.
(d) George Washington.

6. 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) 1789.
(c) 1790.
(d) 1777.

7. 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.

8. What is the name of the ship that Solomon Lindo and Meena take to New York in Book Three, Chapter 12?
(a) The King George.
(b) The Sierra Leone Packet.
(c) The Lucretia.
(d) The Queen Charlotte.

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

10. How many years has it been since Meena has seen John Clarkson when he meets her upon her arrival in London in Book Four, Chapter 21?
(a) 8.
(b) 5.
(c) 15.
(d) 3.

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

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

13. How many days is it into Meena’s inland journey with the slave-trader when she overhears him saying he plans to sell her in the next village in Book Four, Chapter 20?
(a) 12.
(b) 16.
(c) 31.
(d) 20.

14. 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) Nyeba.
(d) Tala.

15. On what date does the Joseph depart from New York in Book Three, Chapter 13?
(a) November 7, 1783.
(b) August 15, 1783.
(c) November 7, 1775.
(d) April 23, 1775.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Meena send her letter to Sam Fraunces in Book Three, Chapter 15?

2. Who is the Temne chief that sends canoes out to the Sierra Leone fleet to bring the passengers ashore in Book Four, Chapter 17?

3. What does John Clarkson tell the Nova Scotians they will name their colony in Sierra Leone in Book Four, Chapter 17?

4. What is the name of the woman that Meena lives with during her first days in Sierra Leone in Book Four, Chapter 17?

5. What is the name of the slave-trader who agrees to take Meena inland in Book Four, Chapter 20?

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