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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 term does Solomon Lindo tell Meena he prefers to use, rather than “slave,” in Book Two, Chapter 9?
(a) Housekeeper.
(b) Secretary.
(c) Worker.
(d) Servant.

2. In what year does Meena say a smallpox epidemic swept through her region, killing over 200 people, in Book Two, Chapter 10?
(a) 1798.
(b) 1774.
(c) 1802.
(d) 1776.

3. What is the title of Book Two, Chapter 8?
(a) Small Hands Were Good.
(b) Milk for the Longest Nursing.
(c) We Glide Over the Unburied.
(d) Words Swim Farther than a Man Can Walk.

4. By what name does Dolly refer to the estate owned by Solomon Lindo?
(a) Lindotown.
(b) Lindoville.
(c) Lindo House.
(d) Lindo Manor.

5. Who is the king that Meena says she is to meet in Book One, Chapter 1?
(a) King George III.
(b) King James I.
(c) King Edward IV.
(d) King Charles II.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the title of Book One, Chapter 2?

3. What gift does Chekura give to Meena on his first visit to see her in Book Two, Chapter 7?

4. How old does Chekura say he is in Book One, Chapter 3?

5. What language does Meena’s father’s people speak?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Meena overcome the attack from Master Appleby in Book Two, Chapter 8?

3. How is the procedure of the slave auction described in Book Two, Chapter 6?

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

7. How does Aminata describe the journey she is taken on after the auction in Book Two, Chapter 6?

8. Why is Aminata taken as an assistant to the white man on the slave-ship in Book One, Chapter 4?

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

10. How is the marriage exchange between Meena’s mother and father described in Book One, Chapter 2?

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