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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What sounds does Amari hear one night as she walks along the path to Teenie's kitchen in Part Three?
(a) Polly crying over the deaths of her parents.
(b) The voice of Clay Derby calling for her.
(c) A tense conversation between an unnamed man and woman.
(d) The sounds of hound dogs searching the fields.

2. How long does Amari fight the pain and possible infection of the beating by Mr. Derby?
(a) One day.
(b) One week.
(c) Three weeks.
(d) Three days.

3. What advice does Afi give Amari about Besa?
(a) To run to him.
(b) To remember their love.
(c) To forget him.
(d) To spit on him.

4. How many women die during the big storm while crossing the ocean in Part One?
(a) 40.
(b) 8.
(c) 16.
(d) 90.

5. Why must Besa leave Amari so quickly in Part One?
(a) He has seen some white men coming toward the village.
(b) He does not like to speak much with Amari.
(c) He has work to complete.
(d) He is on his way to his family dinner.

6. Why do Myna and Polly get the opportunity to serve dinner at the big house in Part Four?
(a) Mr. Derby knows that Polly deserves to work in the house.
(b) Clay requests Myna's services.
(c) Isabelle Derby has been saving a job for Polly.
(d) Hildy's daughter must help her recover.

7. Why does Mr. Derby prefer that his slaves be fresh from Africa?
(a) He likes to break the slaves when they get to the plantation.
(b) The Africans know how to manage the rice.
(c) The Africans know that he provides them with a good life.
(d) He wants to help the slaves adjust to their new life.

8. Why does Mr. Derby come to the kitchen one morning in Part Six?
(a) He wants to bring Myna to Clay.
(b) He needs dinner service that night.
(c) He wants to use Tidbit as bait again.
(d) Mrs. Derby is in labor.

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

10. How is Mr. Derby different with the new Mrs. Derby than he was with his first wife?
(a) He married his first wife for money.
(b) He respects his new wife's every opinion.
(c) He appears more lovesick toward his new wife.
(d) He is more detached this time.

11. How does Noah passively show the Derbies that he is unhappy with their treatment of Amari?
(a) He speaks up for Amari.
(b) He remains quiet.
(c) He coughs loudly.
(d) He spooks the horse.

12. What name does Clay give to Amari?
(a) Beloved.
(b) Myna.
(c) Chosen.
(d) Amari.

13. What happens to the mother and daughter who jumped from the small boat?
(a) They are drowned.
(b) They are shot.
(c) They are dragged back onto the boat.
(d) They are eaten by sharks.

14. How old is Amari when she makes it to the auction block?
(a) 12.
(b) 14.
(c) 15.
(d) 13.

15. What is the nature of Besa and Amari's relationship?
(a) They are siblings.
(b) They are cousins.
(c) They are friends.
(d) They are betrothed.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many slaves have died on the Derby farm this year?

2. How does Amari make a new friend in the holding area in Part One?

3. Which of the servants has childbirth experience?

4. Why does Amari choose to focus on "learning the language of the white man" (54)?

5. What kills Tirza?

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