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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 year does the author denote in the opening of Book Two, Chapter 9?
(a) 1762.
(b) 1774.
(c) 1802.
(d) 1757.
2. What initials were branded into Meena’s chest when she was abducted and sold into slavery?
(a) A.D.
(b) M.O.
(c) G.O.
(d) B.R.
3. What word is used by Meena and the Africans to describe the white man in Book One, Chapter 3?
(a) Toubab.
(b) Buckra.
(c) Fulfulde.
(d) Gullah.
4. What is the title of Book One, Chapter 1?
(a) Words Swim Farther than a Man Can Walk.
(b) The Shape of Africa.
(c) And Now I am Old.
(d) We Glide Over the Unburied.
5. By what title does Meena refer to the white man on the ship that makes her his assistant in Book One, Chapter 4?
(a) The Kassam.
(b) The Ship Chief.
(c) The Medicine Man.
(d) The Bururi.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does Sanu name her baby in Book One, Chapter 3?
2. In what city does Solomon Lindo live when he purchases Meena?
3. How far along in her pregnancy does Meena surmise Fanta is in Book One, Chapter 3?
4. What is the name of the older black man that Dolly buys most of her food items from in town each day in Book Two, Chapter 9?
5. What is the name of Meena’s baby that was taken by Mr. Appleby and sold?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why is Aminata given the name “Meena” by the other slaves on the plantation in Book Two, Chapter 7?
2. Whose child does Aminata deliver in Book One, Chapter 3? What is the child named?
3. How does Meena overcome the attack from Master Appleby in Book Two, Chapter 8?
4. How old is Chekura described in Book One, Chapter 3? How did he come to be among the captors?
5. How does Aminata describe the history of storytellers in her village in Book One, Chapter 4?
6. How is Aminata’s new situation described in the beginning of Book Two, Chapter 9?
7. How does Dolly teach Meena in her daily tasks in Book Two, Chapter 9?
8. How is the marriage exchange between Meena’s mother and father described in Book One, Chapter 2?
9. What is the central dispute between Meena and the abolitionists in London, as illustrated in Book Two, Chapter 5?
10. How is the procedure of the slave auction described in Book Two, Chapter 6?
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