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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 3 (pages 58-93).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Maya is invited into T.D. Bafoo's office, what does she expect will happen?
(a) She will be reprimanded.
(b) She will be fired.
(c) She will be offered a job.
(d) She will receive a raise.

2. What is Maya asked during the celebration in Aburi?
(a) If she would like Sheikhali to tie her green bandanna in the traditional style.
(b) If she would like to dance with Sheikhali.
(c) To please stop staring at Sheikhali because it's rude.
(d) If she would have dinner with Sheikhali.

3. What major movement is happening in the United States while Maya lives in Africa?
(a) Gay rights.
(b) Children's rights.
(c) Civil rights.
(d) Immigration rights.

4. After Maya explains to the Chicago stockyard worker and his wife that she and her friends are simply trying to prepare the couple for the realities of life in Ghana, what does the couple decide?
(a) To give Ghana a chance.
(b) To move to Guinea.
(c) To ask their American relatives to wire money.
(d) To move into the YMCA.

5. What does the hairdresser tease Maya about?
(a) Her American accent.
(b) Her American clothes.
(c) Having no boyfriend.
(d) Having only one child.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Maya describe T.D. Bafoo and his wife as a couple?

2. In the Senior Common Room discussion Maya walks into, she hears an Englishman and a Ghanaian speaking rudely about what?

3. What job does Maya's friend, Vicki, get in Africa?

4. Maya meets Efua Sutherland, who is head of what?

5. Once she realizes that her son is going to be all right after what happens to him unexpectedly, Maya starts to:

(see the answer key)

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