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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 did the track coach purchase for Mawi during the four years he was on the track team?
(a) Shorts.
(b) Jerseys.
(c) Running shoes.
(d) Cigarettes.

2. What was one of several topics to avoid talking about with their parents, according to the author in "Coffee Tales"?
(a) Politics.
(b) Africa.
(c) Money.
(d) Sex.

3. What did Tewolde help the man whom he had taken the weight bench from find?
(a) His parents.
(b) His wife and children.
(c) Housing and a job.
(d) A bank to rob.

4. Haileab earned further education and became what as opposed to a full-fledged doctor?
(a) An MRI technician.
(b) A phlebotomy technician.
(c) An X-Ray technician.
(d) An advanced dresser.

5. Who offered Mawi a full-tuition scholarship?
(a) Wayne State University.
(b) Harvard University.
(c) The University of Michigan.
(d) Oxford University.

Short Answer Questions

1. How far did Mawi run to get to athletic practices at the school?

2. What profession did Haileab have in Africa?

3. What did Mawi become during his senior year?

4. What would Mawi's father do whenever the armies approached?

5. Mawi and his brother almost died from __________________ when they were sent away from their mother.

Short Essay Questions

1. Why was Mawi's family evicted? What happened when they moved in "The Unmaking of a Man"?

2. What led to Mawi's father leaving alone for Sudan, as related in "The Making of a Man"?

3. How does the author describe his brother's transformation in "Libee Migbar"?

4. How did Tewolde acquire a weight bench in "Libee Migbar"? Whom did he ask to help transport it?

5. What did Tewolde hope to accomplish with his business in "Libee Migbar"? What happened instead?

6. How did Mawi's father come to work essentially as a doctor, as described in "The Making of a Man"?

7. What did Mawi know not to discuss with his parents as a child? How did he and his brother learn about the past in "Coffee Tales"?

8. What plan did Mawi and Tewolde develop on Halloween in "Days of Mischief"?

9. What led Mawi's mother to eventually leave for Sudan with her children, as revealed in "Coffee Tales"?

10. What did Mawi and his brother learn about their father's departure in "Coffee Tales"?

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