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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 5 - 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the title of Book One, Chapter 3?
(a) Three Revolutions of the Moon.
(b) Words Come Late from a Wet-nurse.
(c) They Call Me an ‘African’.
(d) The Shape of Africa.

2. What is Meena’s father by trade when she is a young girl?
(a) The village chief.
(b) A jeweler.
(c) A slave-trader.
(d) A medicine man.

3. By what title does Meena refer to the white man on the ship that makes her his assistant in Book One, Chapter 4?
(a) The Medicine Man.
(b) The Kassam.
(c) The Bururi.
(d) The Ship Chief.

4. What language does Meena’s father’s people speak?
(a) French.
(b) Fulfulde.
(c) Gullah.
(d) English.

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. Who kills the white man that has taken Meena as his assistant on the ship during the uprising in Book One, Chapter 4?

2. What is the holy book of Islam?

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

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

5. What is the name of the Bamana woman that Meena encounters during the walking journey in the New World in Book Two, Chapter 6?

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