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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 1 (pages 3-32).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What job does Maya's friend, Vicki, get in Africa?
(a) House cleaner for a university professor.
(b) Editor of a prestigious paper.
(c) Cook at the YMCA kitchen.
(d) Typist in a foreign embassy.

2. What happens to Maya's son early in the story?
(a) He is seriously hurt in a car accident.
(b) He is swept to sea and nearly drowns.
(c) He is mistaken for a revolutionary rebel.
(d) He wins a national writing contest.

3. At the start of the story, what is Maya's predominant feeling about what happens to her son?
(a) Anger.
(b) Elation.
(c) Confusion.
(d) Disappointment.

4. Where does Maya move to with her friends Alice and Vicki?
(a) Three-bedroom bungalow.
(b) City a hundred miles away.
(c) Twelfth story of a high-rise.
(d) Neighboring quiet village.

5. Where is Maya's son studying?
(a) University of Nairobi.
(b) University of Ghana.
(c) National University of Rwanda.
(d) University of Douala.

Short Answer Questions

1. At the university, Professor J.H. Nketia is the chairman of what?

2. What is Maya's son's name?

3. How does Maya feel living in Africa?

4. Maya meets Efua Sutherland, who is head of what?

5. Following what happens to Maya's son, Efua Sutherland gives her permission to what?

(see the answer key)

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