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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 name of the older black man that Dolly buys most of her food items from in town each day in Book Two, Chapter 9?
(a) Daddy Moses.
(b) Jimbo.
(c) Youssouf.
(d) Alassane.

2. What is the name of Meena’s baby that was taken by Mr. Appleby and sold?
(a) Jimbo.
(b) Samuel.
(c) Fanta.
(d) Mamadu.

3. Meena insists to the abolitionists in Book Two, Chapter 5 that she cannot condemn the slave trade without condemning what as well?
(a) Africa.
(b) Slavery itself.
(c) The British.
(d) The Americans.

4. Fanta is one of how many wives of the chief of Meena’s village?
(a) 4.
(b) 6.
(c) 3.
(d) 5.

5. Solomon Lindo tells Meena that they are both outsiders. Why does Lindo consider himself to be an outsider amongst his society?
(a) Because he is Muslim.
(b) Because he is English.
(c) Because he is Jewish.
(d) Because he is mulatto.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What term does Solomon Lindo tell Meena he prefers to use, rather than “slave,” in Book Two, Chapter 9?

3. What symbols does Meena have carved into her cheeks?

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

5. What is the year that the author denotes in the opening of Book Two, Chapter 6?

Short Essay Questions

1. Whose child does Aminata deliver in Book One, Chapter 3? What is the child named?

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

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

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

5. What is the central dispute between Meena and the abolitionists in London, as illustrated in Book Two, Chapter 5?

6. Whose deaths does Meena describe hearing about through the fishnet in the beginning of Book Two, Chapter 10?

7. Why is Aminata taken as an assistant to the white man on the slave-ship in Book One, Chapter 4?

8. 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?

9. What setting is described in the opening of Book Two, Chapter 6? How do the slaves react to this setting?

10. Who cares for Aminata when she becomes ill on the island in Book Two, Chapter 6?

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