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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Mr. Appleby do after he sends Georgia away to attend a birth without Meena in Book Two, Chapter 7?
(a) He rapes Meena.
(b) He sells Meena.
(c) He reads to Meena.
(d) He kills Meena.

2. What symbols does Meena have carved into her cheeks?
(a) Crescent moons.
(b) Lion’s faces.
(c) Suns.
(d) Five-pointed stars.

3. What language does Meena’s father’s people speak?
(a) French.
(b) English.
(c) Gullah.
(d) Fulfulde.

4. What is the name of the son Dolly gives birth to in Book Two, Chapter 9?
(a) Kassam.
(b) Samuel.
(c) Harry.
(d) Youssouf.

5. What is Meena’s father by trade when she is a young girl?
(a) The village chief.
(b) A jeweler.
(c) A medicine man.
(d) A slave-trader.

Short Answer Questions

1. From what people does Meena say her father came in Book One, Chapter 2?

2. What is the name of Appleby’s black assistant who takes over as overseer in Book Two, Chapter 7?

3. What is the name of the village where Meena was born in the novel?

4. Whom does Meena say she has instructed to change none of her words in the story of her life, in Book One, Chapter 1?

5. What is the title of Book One, Chapter 3?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who cares for Aminata when she becomes ill on the island in Book Two, Chapter 6?

2. Who oversees the slaves at Appleby’s plantation in Book Two, Chapter 7? How many slaves does Meena describe there?

3. What setting is described in the opening of Book One, Chapter 2? How is the setting described?

4. How is Meena’s relationship with each of her parents described in Book One, Chapter 2?

5. How is Aminata’s arrival at Robinson Appleby’s indigo plantation described in Book Two, Chapter 7?

6. What setting is described in the opening of Book Two, Chapter 6? How do the slaves react to this setting?

7. Where and when does Book One, Chapter 1 open? How does the narrator introduce herself in this chapter?

8. What is Meena’s full name? Why is she located in her current setting in Book One, Chapter 1?

9. How is Aminata’s new situation described in the beginning of Book Two, Chapter 9?

10. Whose child does Aminata deliver in Book One, Chapter 3? What is the child named?

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