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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What is Meena’s full name in the novel?
(a) Amanita Equiano.
(b) Amanita Maria.
(c) Aminata Amiki.
(d) Aminata Diallo.
2. What is the title of Book Two, Chapter 9?
(a) The Shape of Africa.
(b) Three Revolutions of the Moon.
(c) Words Swim Farther than a Man Can Walk.
(d) Small Hands Were Good.
3. What is the title of Book One, Chapter 1?
(a) We Glide Over the Unburied.
(b) Words Swim Farther than a Man Can Walk.
(c) And Now I am Old.
(d) The Shape of Africa.
4. What is the name of the village that Chekura says he’s from in Book One, Chapter 3?
(a) Kinta.
(b) Birchtown.
(c) Bayo.
(d) Kassam.
5. How is Meena’s father killed by the captors?
(a) He is shot.
(b) He is beaten to death.
(c) He is thrown overboard.
(d) He is hung.
Short Answer Questions
1. What year is denoted by the author in the opening of Book Two, Chapter 5?
2. What is the name of the language that Georgia teaches Meena that is just used amongst the slaves in Book Two, Chapter 7?
3. What is the name of Meena’s baby that was taken by Mr. Appleby and sold?
4. What is the title of Book Two, Chapter 7?
5. Solomon Lindo tells Meena that they are both outsiders. Why does Lindo consider himself to be an outsider amongst his society?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does Aminata describe the history of storytellers in her village in Book One, Chapter 4?
2. Who cares for Aminata when she becomes ill on the island in Book Two, Chapter 6?
3. What setting is described in the opening of Book Two, Chapter 6? How do the slaves react to this setting?
4. What is Meena’s full name? Why is she located in her current setting in Book One, Chapter 1?
5. How is the character of Dolly described in Book Two, Chapter 9?
6. How is the marriage exchange between Meena’s mother and father described in Book One, Chapter 2?
7. How is Aminata’s arrival at Robinson Appleby’s indigo plantation described in Book Two, Chapter 7?
8. When does Meena have her first child in Book Two, Chapter 8? How is this experience described?
9. What is the central dispute between Meena and the abolitionists in London, as illustrated in Book Two, Chapter 5?
10. Why is Aminata taken as an assistant to the white man on the slave-ship in Book One, Chapter 4?
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