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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How long do Meena and her daughter stay at the Witherspoons before the rioting is said to have ended and Meena goes to see if her home is still standing in Book Three, Chapter 15?
(a) 6 days.
(b) 5 days.
(c) 4 days.
(d) 7 days.

2. Who is the Temne woman that tells Meena that the blacks in Meena’s colony are perceived by other Africans as "toubabu with black faces” in Book Four, Chapter 17?
(a) Sanu.
(b) Fatima.
(c) Tala.
(d) Nyeba.

3. What is the title of Book Three, Chapter 16?
(a) They Call Me an ‘African’.
(b) Three Revolutions of the Moon.
(c) Small Hands Were Good.
(d) Elephants for Want of Towns.

4. What section of the British peace treaty for the American Revolution stated that the British would not be taking "any Negroes or other Property of the American Inhabitants" in their retreat”?
(a) Section IX.
(b) Section X.
(c) Section VII.
(d) Section III

5. What is the title of Book Four, Chapter 18?
(a) Help from the Saints.
(b) And Now I am Old.
(c) We Glide Over the Unburied.
(d) Words Come Late from a Wet-nurse.

6. Who runs the port at Bance Island and introduces Meena to the traders who might act as guides inland for her in Book Four, Chapter 19?
(a) King Jimmy.
(b) Scott Wilson.
(c) Theo McArdle.
(d) William Armstrong.

7. How many years has it been since Meena first visited Bance Island and met William Armstrong in the beginning of Book Four, Chapter 20?
(a) 6.
(b) 3.
(c) 8.
(d) 5.

8. What is the name of the black community where Meena lives in Nova Scotia?
(a) Birchtown.
(b) Freetown.
(c) Shelburne.
(d) Charlotte.

9. What is the title of Book Three, Chapter 15?
(a) My Children were Like Phantom Limbs.
(b) They Come and Go from Holy Ground.
(c) The Shape of Africa.
(d) Nations Not So Blest as Thee.

10. What name does Meena give her daughter in Book Three, Chapter 15?
(a) Georgia.
(b) Tala.
(c) May.
(d) Sanu.

11. How many passengers on Meena’s ship die on the voyage to Africa in Book Four, Chapter 17?
(a) 5.
(b) 3.
(c) 12.
(d) 7.

12. What is the title of Book Three, Chapter 11?
(a) We Glide Over the Unburied.
(b) They Call Me an ‘African’.
(c) Nations Not So Blest as Thee.
(d) Three Revolutions of the Moon.

13. What kind of business is Alverna Witherspoon’s husband said to run in Book Three, Chapter 15?
(a) A gold mining business.
(b) A whaling business.
(c) A trapping business.
(d) A print shop.

14. What is the title of Book Four, Chapter 21?
(a) Small Hands Were Good.
(b) We Glide Over the Unburied.
(c) Grand Djeli of the Academy.
(d) Toubab with Black Face.

15. How much money does Meena give to Thomas Peters during his first visit to Birchtown in Book Three, Chapter 16?
(a) 2 shillings.
(b) 5 shillings.
(c) 1 shilling.
(d) 10 shillings.

Short Answer Questions

1. How much does Sam start out paying Meena per week when she begins working for him in Book Three, Chapter 12?

2. Where do the British set up the enrollment area where blacks can line up for emigration and have their name recorded in the Book of Negroes in Book Three, Chapter 13?

3. What is the name of the botanist on board Meena’s ship to England in Book Four, Chapter 21?

4. What is the name of the inn where Solomon Lindo and Meena stay in Book Three, Chapter 12?

5. How many fingers is Chekura missing when he reappears in Book Three, Chapter 13?

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