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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 word in the narrative is used to describe any of various gourds for carrying water or liquids?
(a) Luxane.
(b) Calabash.
(c) Alassane.
(d) Bururi.

2. Around what year does Meena say she was born in Book One, Chapter 1?
(a) 1745.
(b) 1802.
(c) 1757.
(d) 1774.

3. Robinson Appleby’s indigo plantation is located on what island?
(a) Sullivan Island.
(b) Ellis Island.
(c) St. Helena Island.
(d) Montgomery Island.

4. Sullivan’s Island is located off the coast of what U.S. state?
(a) South Carolina.
(b) North Carolina.
(c) Mississippi.
(d) Georgia.

5. Whom does Meena describe in Book Two, Chapter 5 as “the jolly abolitionist”?
(a) Sir Stanley Hastings.
(b) Thomas Peters.
(c) Scott Wilson.
(d) William Armstrong.

Short Answer Questions

1. The man that takes Meena as his assistant on the slave ship has what kind of pet in his quarters?

2. What year is denoted by the author in the opening of Book Two, Chapter 5?

3. What year does the author denote in the opening of Book Two, Chapter 7?

4. How far is Dolly in her pregnancy when Meena first meets her in Book Two, Chapter 9?

5. What is the date listed by the author in the opening of Book One, Chapter 2?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How is the character of Dolly described in Book Two, Chapter 9?

4. How does the narrator conclude the chapter in Book Two, Chapter 6? What are her thoughts focused on in this section of the text?

5. When does Meena have her first child in Book Two, Chapter 8? How is this experience described?

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

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

8. What is the central dispute between Meena and the abolitionists in London, as illustrated in Book Two, Chapter 5?

9. What does Aminata asks Chekura to do when she begins menstruating in Book One, Chapter 3?

10. Whose deaths does Meena describe hearing about through the fishnet in the beginning of Book Two, Chapter 10?

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