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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. Efua takes Maya to Aburi, a town near Accra, for what?
(a) Baby naming ceremony.
(b) Birthday party.
(c) Graduation ceremony.
(d) Thanksgiving feast.

2. After living at the YMCA, where does Maya move to temporarily?
(a) Home of a distant aunt.
(b) Penthouse apartment of a luxurious hotel.
(c) Small studio on campus.
(d) Empty house of a professor on leave.

3. Who is Malcolm X?
(a) Official U.S. ambassador.
(b) Sports figure.
(c) Civil Rights leader.
(d) Professor of African-American history.

4. Upon his request, what does Maya sing to the Liberian president?
(a) Amazing Grace.
(b) Swing Low, Sweet Chariot.
(c) How Great Thou Art.
(d) Nearer, My God, To Thee.

5. In the Senior Common Room discussion Maya walks into, she hears an Englishman and a Yugoslav woman ridicule what?
(a) The silliness of trying to reach the moon.
(b) The decision by whites to keep the races apart in South Africa.
(c) The futility of the Vietnam War.
(d) The reaction of blacks to treatment received in America 300 years ago.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Maya work on with Efua at the National Theatre?

2. Who does Kojo remind Maya of?

3. Professor J.H. Nketia, a friend of Efua Sutherland, ends up giving Maya what?

4. How does Maya feel after helping to deliver a written protest to the first secretary of the embassy?

5. What does Sheikhali want Maya to do for his children?

(see the answer key)

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