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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 9 - 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of the underground passage of messages among the slaves that Meena hears of in Book Two, Chapter 6?
(a) The whisper.
(b) The fishnet.
(c) The railroad.
(d) The flock.

2. What is the name of Appleby’s black assistant who takes over as overseer in Book Two, Chapter 7?
(a) Mamed.
(b) Nyeba.
(c) Alassane.
(d) Youssouf

3. What is the title of Book Two, Chapter 10?
(a) Words Come Late from a Wet-nurse.
(b) Milk for the Longest Nursing.
(c) The Shape of Africa.
(d) Words Swim Farther than a Man Can Walk.

4. Whom does Meena describe in Book Two, Chapter 5 as “the jolly abolitionist”?
(a) Thomas Peters.
(b) Sir Stanley Hastings.
(c) William Armstrong.
(d) Scott Wilson.

5. What year is denoted by the author in the opening of Book Two, Chapter 5?
(a) 1790.
(b) 1745.
(c) 1803.
(d) 1774.

Short Answer Questions

1. How is Meena’s father killed by the captors?

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

3. What term do the slaves on the plantation use to refer to the white man in Book Two, Chapter 6?

4. What is the name of the female slave that is taken on the walking journey along with Fomba and Meena in Book Two, Chapter 6?

5. What words of prayer does Meena say before the plantation slave berates her for it in Book Two, Chapter 6?

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