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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Three: Amari.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the white people at the slave auction think of the relationship between Amari and Afi?
(a) That they must be split up.
(b) That they neither know nor care for each other.
(c) That they are mother and daughter.
(d) That they must be sisters.

2. What might be the function of the story of Chief Agokoli?
(a) Imagery to depict the Ashanti warriors.
(b) Verbal irony of Komla's contempt of the white men.
(c) Foreshadowing that the Ewe tribe will prevail.
(d) Alliteration to prove that Komla is the best storyteller.

3. How does the woman whom Amari befriends in the holding area know so much about what is to come for the newly-captured Ewe people?
(a) She has been reading about the slave trade.
(b) Her mother has educated her on these matters.
(c) She just seems to have a sixth sense.
(d) She has been sold before.

4. Which of the following is a simile that describes how the slaves are arranged below deck?
(a) "Slimy with waste" (43)
(b) "The air in this place seemed to have been sucked out" (43)
(c) "Stacked like logs" (43)
(d) "Their feet were locked in leg irons" (43).

5. What do the crewhands throw overboard after the dancing in Part One?
(a) The bodies of men who have died below deck.
(b) Any slave who has been disobedient.
(c) The rotten food they have not had a chance to eat.
(d) Any evidence that they have been there.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does an Ashanti warrior claim that he is partaking in this sort of torture of the Ewe tribe?

2. How did Polly's parents die?

3. What is NOT a characteristic of the captives' shackles in Part One?

4. How do the white people at the slave auction in Part One act toward the slaves?

5. What does Teenie's cooking make both Polly and Amari think about in Part Two?

(see the answer key)

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