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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 year is noted in the opening of Book One, Chapter 1?
(a) 1807.
(b) 1745.
(c) 1802.
(d) 1752.

2. What is the name of the place that everyone tells Meena she is from in Book Two, Chapter 6?
(a) Africa.
(b) Canada.
(c) Ghana.
(d) England.

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

4. What is the title of Book Two, Chapter 9?
(a) Three Revolutions of the Moon.
(b) Words Swim Farther than a Man Can Walk.
(c) Small Hands Were Good.
(d) The Shape of Africa.

5. When did the War of Jenkins’ Ear take place?
(a) 1739-1748.
(b) 1718-1723.
(c) 1741-1753.
(d) 1659-1669.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Sanu name her baby in Book One, Chapter 3?

2. Fanta is one of how many wives of the chief of Meena’s village?

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

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

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

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