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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 the title of Book Two, Chapter 8?
(a) We Glide Over the Unburied.
(b) Small Hands Were Good.
(c) Words Swim Farther than a Man Can Walk.
(d) Milk for the Longest Nursing.

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

3. What year does the author denote in the opening of Book Two, Chapter 7?
(a) 1774.
(b) 1802.
(c) 1757.
(d) 1775.

4. In what year does Meena say a smallpox epidemic swept through her region, killing over 200 people, in Book Two, Chapter 10?
(a) 1798.
(b) 1774.
(c) 1802.
(d) 1776.

5. Where is the narrator of the novel located in Book One, Chapter 1?
(a) Bayo.
(b) London.
(c) Sullivan Island.
(d) Kinto.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Meena’s mother’s job in the village where Meena grew up?

2. What is the name of the slave giving birth when Meena and Georgia go to assist her birth in Book Two, Chapter 7?

3. The War of Jenkins’ Ear was a battle between what two countries?

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

5. Who kills the white man that has taken Meena as his assistant on the ship during the uprising in Book One, Chapter 4?

Short Essay Questions

1. How old is Chekura described in Book One, Chapter 3? How did he come to be among the captors?

2. Who are the visitors that Appleby brings to the plantation in Book Two, Chapter 8? What encounter does Meena have with them?

3. Why is Aminata given the name “Meena” by the other slaves on the plantation in Book Two, Chapter 7?

4. How is Aminata’s arrival at Robinson Appleby’s indigo plantation described in Book Two, Chapter 7?

5. Where and when does Book One, Chapter 1 open? How does the narrator introduce herself in this chapter?

6. When does Meena have her first child in Book Two, Chapter 8? How is this experience described?

7. What setting is described in the opening of Book One, Chapter 2? How is the setting described?

8. How is the procedure of the slave auction described in Book Two, Chapter 6?

9. How is the character of Dolly described in Book Two, Chapter 9?

10. How many captives are traveling with Aminata’s group in the beginning of Book One, Chapter 3? Who arrives that is from Aminata’s village?

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