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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 6 (pages 147-184).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Life in Ghana is hard.
(c) The food in Ghana is terrible.
(d) Life in Ghana is easy.

2. What are the names of the newlyweds Maya stays with while visiting a small African village?
(a) Patience and Kwame.
(b) Grace and Kante.
(c) Mercy and Kayne.
(d) Hope and Kobina.

3. Why does Nana Nketsia go to Maya's house?
(a) To ask questions about a crime.
(b) To invite her to a church ceremony.
(c) To escort her to his home.
(d) To ask her to attend a writer's conference.

4. How does Maya feel after helping to deliver a written protest to the first secretary of the embassy?
(a) Frightened.
(b) Exhausted.
(c) Elated.
(d) Victorious.

5. Maya and her friends, Vicki and Alice, open up their home for whom?
(a) Local actors.
(b) Foreign exchange students.
(c) Christian study groups.
(d) Political discussion groups.

Short Answer Questions

1. Kojo tells Maya that he wants to go to school where?

2. What does Sheikhali say to Maya regarding her intelligence?

3. When Maya confronts her son about his girlfriend, what does he say?

4. How does the receptionist at the Ghana Broadcasting office treat Maya?

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

(see the answer key)

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