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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Maya feel living in Africa?
(a) It's no different than living in the United States.
(b) Accepted and not disciminated against.
(c) Terribly homesick.
(d) Like a second-class citizen.

2. Who does Kojo remind Maya of?
(a) Her son Guy.
(b) Her friend Julian.
(c) Her steward Otu.
(d) Her brother Bailey.

3. This book recounts the author's years in:
(a) Ghana.
(b) Rwanda.
(c) Kenya.
(d) Cameroon.

4. Back at the YMCA, what does Maya convince the cook to bring to one of the women dining there?
(a) Rice.
(b) Beans.
(c) Milk.
(d) Juice.

5. Why does Alice, Maya's friend, decide to move to Ghana?
(a) To work as a social worker.
(b) To help endangered species.
(c) To fulfill a promise she made to her dying mother.
(d) To find a husband.

6. A big part of the reason that Maya is in Africa during this time period is to what?
(a) Better understand the continent of her ancestry.
(b) Make more money than she could in the United States.
(c) Get ahead in life by learning new languages.
(d) Locate her long-lost parents.

7. What is Maya's son's name?
(a) Al.
(b) Jerome.
(c) Guy.
(d) Robert.

8. To thank Maya for finding her misplaced pay envelope, what does Grace Nuamah do?
(a) Buys Maya a purse.
(b) Writes a poem for Maya.
(c) Takes Maya to the movies.
(d) Treats Maya to lunch.

9. This memoir covers the author's life during which time frame?
(a) Mid forties.
(b) Late seventies.
(c) Late nineties.
(d) Mid sixties.

10. When Maya and her friends talk with a couple who have just arrived from the United States, what do they tell the couple?
(a) Ghanaian cuisine is the best food they've ever had.
(b) The food in Ghana is terrible.
(c) Life in Ghana is easy.
(d) Life in Ghana is hard.

11. What language do Maya and Sheikhali prefer to converse in?
(a) Fante.
(b) English.
(c) Gonja.
(d) French.

12. When Maya goes into the Senior Common Room during a break one morning, she hears a group of professors and others discussing what?
(a) Civil Rights Movement in the U.S.
(b) Apartheid in South Africa.
(c) The Vietnam War.
(d) The race between nations to reach the moon first.

13. At the university, Professor J.H. Nketia is the chairman of what?
(a) Institute of African Studies.
(b) Institue of Global Perspectives.
(c) Department of Engineering.
(d) Department of Oceanographic Studies.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What article is Maya asked to write when she looks for journalism work in Africa?

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

3. Maya and her friends, Vicki and Alice, open up their home for whom?

4. What does Kojo say when Maya explains she has no funds?

5. What happens to Maya's son early in the story?

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