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

2. Sullivan’s Island is located off the coast of what U.S. state?
(a) Mississippi.
(b) South Carolina.
(c) North Carolina.
(d) Georgia.

3. What is the name of the Bamana woman that Meena encounters during the walking journey in the New World in Book Two, Chapter 6?
(a) Alassane.
(b) Nyeba.
(c) Tala.
(d) Fanta.

4. From what people does Meena say her father came in Book One, Chapter 2?
(a) The Somali people.
(b) The Fula people.
(c) The Bamana people.
(d) The Oromo people.

5. How is Meena’s father killed by the captors?
(a) He is beaten to death.
(b) He is hung.
(c) He is thrown overboard.
(d) He is shot.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the year that the author denotes in the opening of Book Two, Chapter 6?

2. What is the name of the place that everyone tells Meena she is from in Book Two, Chapter 6?

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

4. 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?

5. What word in the narrative is used to describe any of various gourds for carrying water or liquids?

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