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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 13 - 14.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Who kills the white man that has taken Meena as his assistant on the ship during the uprising in Book One, Chapter 4?
(a) Fomba.
(b) Sanu.
(c) Fanta.
(d) Jimbo.

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

5. Who leaps overboard when her baby is killed during the uprising in Book One, Chapter 4?
(a) Sanu.
(b) Fanta.
(c) Fatima.
(d) Aminata.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Whom does Dolly describe as “the boss woman” of the white people and also “the Black Queen” in Book Two, Chapter 9?

3. What is the language called that Georgia uses when talking to the whites in Book Two, Chapter 7?

4. What is Book Three, Chapter 12’s title?

5. What year is noted in the opening of Book One, Chapter 1?

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