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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is the name of the slave-trader who agrees to take Meena inland in Book Four, Chapter 20?
(a) Alassane.
(b) Kassam.
(c) Nyeba.
(d) Mamadu.

3. Which of the abolitionists tells Meena that he wants to write her life story in Book Four, Chapter 21?
(a) Thomas Clarkson.
(b) William Armstrong.
(c) Sir Stanley Hastings.
(d) John Clarkson.

4. On what date does Meena’s ship sail into St. George’s Bay in Book Four, Chapter 17?
(a) March 26, 1783.
(b) March 9, 1792.
(c) April 23, 1775.
(d) November 7, 1775.

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

6. On what date does Meena say she and Chekura conceived their second child in Book Three, Chapter 13?
(a) November 7, 1775.
(b) August 15, 1783.
(c) November 7, 1783.
(d) April 23, 1775.

7. What is the title of Book Four, Chapter 17?
(a) Elephants for Want of Towns.
(b) The Shape of Africa.
(c) Toubab with Black Face.
(d) They Come and Go from Holy Ground.

8. Whom does Meena untie after he’s been assaulted by whites on the road to Shelburne in Book Three, Chapter 15?
(a) Samuel.
(b) Jason.
(c) Jimbo.
(d) King Jimmy.

9. Who is the Temne chief that sends canoes out to the Sierra Leone fleet to bring the passengers ashore in Book Four, Chapter 17?
(a) King Mamadu.
(b) King Jimmy.
(c) Chief Nyeba.
(d) Olaudah Equiano.

10. 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) 31.
(b) 16.
(c) 12.
(d) 20.

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

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

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

14. In what location is Book Three, Chapter 11 set?
(a) Kinta
(b) Bayo.
(c) London.
(d) )Freetown.

15. 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) 3 shillings.
(b) 2 pounds.
(c) 5 shillings.
(d) 1 pound.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What is Dr. Falconbridge’s wife’s name?

4. What term from the narrative refers to American colonists who remained loyal to the British Empire during the American Revolutionary War?

5. What year does the author denote in the opening of Book Three, Chapter 11?

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