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

2. How old was Sam Fraunces when he was sent away from his family and traveled to New York?
(a) 17.
(b) 15.
(c) 12.
(d) 18.

3. What is the year that the author denotes in the opening of Book Two, Chapter 6?
(a) 1757.
(b) 1811.
(c) 1762.
(d) 1802.

4. Fanta is one of how many wives of the chief of Meena’s village?
(a) 6.
(b) 5.
(c) 4.
(d) 3.

5. 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) Bayo.
(b) St. Helena Island.
(c) St. Domingue.
(d) Cairo.

Short Answer Questions

1. What visitor of Mr. Appleby’s attempts to rape Meena in Book Two, Chapter 8?

2. Approximately how many slaves does Meena describe at Appleby’s indigo plantation in Book Two, Chapter 7?

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

4. What is the word that Meena uses to describe the storyteller in her village in Book One, Chapter 4?

5. By what name does Dolly refer to the estate owned by Solomon Lindo?

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