Effia & Esi
Quey & Ness
James / Kojo
History of Ghana / America
Complete the quote
100
Effia is called Effia the _____.
What is Beauty?
100
Nana Yaa is this tribe's king's daughter.
What is Asante?
100
James runs away for these two reasons.
What are to stop being a slaver and to marry Akosua?
100
What is the Golden Stool?
100
Ness's skin was no longer skin really, more like the _ _ _ _ _ (5) of her past made seeable, physical.
What is ghost?
200
This character loses her black stone.
Who is Esi?
200
This is the cultural reason why Fiifi treats Quey like a son.
What is because your sister was born of your mother but your wife was not, so this makes your connection to your sister's son important?
200
Jo gives Mirabel's father this animal to signal his infatuation with her.
What is a frog?
200
Name one of the two main African languages spoken by characters in the book.
What is Fante or Twi?
200
"I heard you're back from London. Can I see you, _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ (3 & 6)?"
What is old friend?
300
Where Esi is held captive before getting shipped to America.
What is Cape Coast Castle?
300
The character whose kindness (and possible romantic interest) Ness rebuffs at Thomas Allan Stockham's plantation. He is Pinky's dad.
Who is TimTam?
300
Jo names his kids following this convention.
What is by naming each kid by the next letter of the alphabet, starting with A for Agnes?
300
This is the soft, dough-like staple food typically made of green plantains mixed with cassava.
What is fufu?
300
"'I'm sorry,' he says. They are the first _ _ _ _ _ _ _ (7) words he ever speaks to her, to anyone."
What is English?
400
This is the deep-seeded fear passed down through Effia’s descendants.
What is a fear of fire?
400
This is where and when Ness meets Aku.
What is at church on Easter Sunday?
400
After he runs away, James works for a doctor who is originally from this place.
What is Scotland?
400
Tansi tells stories about this mischievous spider figure.
Who is Anansi?
400
"She'd heard the Englishmen call them '_ _ _ _ _ _ _' (7), not wives."
What is wenches?
500
The chief of Effia's village that she was supposed to marry and that Esi meets briefly.
Who is Chief Abeeku?
500
The two names Quey and Cudjo name their racing snails.
What are Kwame and Richard?
500
This is the name of the boat that Jo works on.
What is the Alice?
500
This is the canine nickname of the Fugitive Slave Act.
What is the Bloodhound Law?
500
"His mother always said that the Gold Coast was like a pot of _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ (9) soup."
What is groundnut?