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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 2 (pages 32-58).

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What promise do T.D. Bafoo and his wife make to Maya?
(a) To serve as mentors for her son.
(b) To pay for her trip back to the United States.
(c) To help her discover a deeper part of Ghana.
(d) To look for a suitable husband for her.

4. A big part of the reason that Maya is in Africa during this time period is to what?
(a) Get ahead in life by learning new languages.
(b) Locate her long-lost parents.
(c) Make more money than she could in the United States.
(d) Better understand the continent of her ancestry.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who was T.D. Kwesi Bafoo?

3. This book recounts the author's years in:

4. Maya Angelou is a world-renowned:

5. In Ghana, Maya is invited to an "outdooring." What is an outdooring?

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