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

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

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

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

5. After listening to the negative talk going on in the Senior Common Room discussion Maya walks into, how does she react?
(a) Shakes her head and walks away.
(b) Laughs heartily and tells everyone they're funny.
(c) Erupts in anger and accuses the group of being ignorant.
(d) Stands up indignantly and slaps the Englishman.

Short Answer Questions

1. As an American, how does Maya regard the African culture she is discovering?

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

3. After living at the YMCA, where does Maya move to temporarily?

4. Which of the following best describes Maya?

5. In the Senior Common Room discussion Maya walks into, she hears an Englishman and a Yugoslav woman ridicule what?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens to Comfort, Maya's hairstylist?

2. Back in Accra, why is Maya taken to the home of Nana Nketsia, a local tribe chief and adviser to the president?

3. Who is Malcolm X?

4. How do Ghanaians in general feel about the black Americans moving to their country?

5. How does Maya help dance teacher Grace Nuamah, and how does Grace repay Maya?

6. Why does Malcolm X go to Ghana?

7. After being mistreated and discriminated against by people whose skin color is the same as hers, what does Maya start to theorize?

8. How does Maya react to Sheikhali's ongoing marriage proposals?

9. What do Vicki and Alice tell a newly arrived American couple from Chicago?

10. How does Maya react to Kojo's request?

(see the answer keys)

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