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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 words of prayer does Meena say before the plantation slave berates her for it in Book Two, Chapter 6?
(a) “Bəhai duaları.”
(b) “Bahá’í Gebede.”
(c) “Allaahu Akbar.”
(d) “Praise Jesus.”

2. What does Sanu name her baby in Book One, Chapter 3?
(a) Aminata.
(b) Youssouf.
(c) Samuel.
(d) Alassane.

3. The War of Jenkins’ Ear was a battle between what two countries?
(a) England and Spain.
(b) England and the Dutch.
(c) France and Spain.
(d) France and England.

4. When Meena goes with Georgia to assist in the birthing of another slave’s baby in Book Two, Chapter 7, the slave giving birth only speaks what language?
(a) Spanish.
(b) Fulfulde.
(c) Gullah.
(d) Bamana.

5. What is the title of Book Two, Chapter 6?
(a) Three Revolutions of the Moon.
(b) And Now I am Old.
(c) They Call Me an ‘African’.
(d) We Glide Over the Unburied.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. How does Meena say Fomba was killed in Book Two, Chapter 10?

4. Whom does Dolly describe as “the Boss man of the whole land” in Book Two, Chapter 9?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Who are the visitors that Appleby brings to the plantation in Book Two, Chapter 8? What encounter does Meena have with them?

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

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

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

6. Why is Aminata given the name “Meena” by the other slaves on the plantation in Book Two, Chapter 7?

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

8. How old is Chekura described in Book One, Chapter 3? How did he come to be among the captors?

9. How does Dolly teach Meena in her daily tasks in Book Two, Chapter 9?

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

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