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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 11 - 12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the title of Book Two, Chapter 8?
(a) Small Hands Were Good.
(b) Words Swim Farther than a Man Can Walk.
(c) Milk for the Longest Nursing.
(d) We Glide Over the Unburied.

2. One of the abolitionists tells Meena in Book Two, Chapter 5 that the British people are still haunted by the bloody slave uprisings that have recently occurred where?
(a) St. Domingue.
(b) St. Helena Island.
(c) Cairo.
(d) Bayo.

3. Who leaps overboard when her baby is killed during the uprising in Book One, Chapter 4?
(a) Aminata.
(b) Sanu.
(c) Fanta.
(d) Fatima.

4. In what location is Book Three, Chapter 11 set?
(a) London.
(b) )Freetown.
(c) Bayo.
(d) Kinta

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Charles Town founded in honor of King Charles II of England?

2. What word is used by Meena and the Africans to describe the white man in Book One, Chapter 3?

3. Where does Sam tell Meena to hide out for three days in Book Three, Chapter 12?

4. Who encourages Meena to learn the language of the white man but not to teach him theirs, in Book One, Chapter 4?

5. 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?

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