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

2. From what people does Meena say her father came in Book One, Chapter 2?
(a) The Oromo people.
(b) The Somali people.
(c) The Bamana people.
(d) The Fula people.

3. What is the title of Book Two, Chapter 7?
(a) Three Revolutions of the Moon.
(b) They Call Me an ‘African’.
(c) Words Swim Farther than a Man Can Walk.
(d) And Now I am Old.

4. What is the title of Book One, Chapter 1?
(a) And Now I am Old.
(b) Words Swim Farther than a Man Can Walk.
(c) The Shape of Africa.
(d) We Glide Over the Unburied.

5. What handicap does Fomba develop on the journey of the slave-ship?
(a) He loses the ability to speak.
(b) He’s lost the use of his left arm.
(c) He has gone deaf.
(d) He has gone blind.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the slave giving birth when Meena and Georgia go to assist her birth in Book Two, Chapter 7?

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

3. How old is Meena when she gives birth to her first child?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. When and where does the narrator say she was born in Book One, Chapter 1? What does she say should happen if she should die before completing her life story?

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

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

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

5. How many captives are traveling with Aminata’s group in the beginning of Book One, Chapter 3? Who arrives that is from Aminata’s village?

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

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

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

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

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

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