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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. Professor J.H. Nketia, a friend of Efua Sutherland, ends up giving Maya what?
(a) Honorary degree.
(b) A Job.
(c) Rare book.
(d) Refrigerator.

2. When Maya is invited into T.D. Bafoo's office, what does she expect will happen?
(a) She will be reprimanded.
(b) She will be offered a job.
(c) She will receive a raise.
(d) She will be fired.

3. What else does Professor J.H. Nketia help Maya with?
(a) Running a campaign.
(b) Finding a car.
(c) Learning the language.
(d) Contacting the president.

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

5. After Maya's friends Alice and Vicki tell the Chicago stockyard worker and his wife about life in Ghana, what does the man do?
(a) Threatens to leave.
(b) Accuses them of lying.
(c) Goes into a depression.
(d) Applies for work immediately.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which of the following best describes Maya?

3. When Maya goes into the Senior Common Room during a break one morning, she hears a group of professors and others discussing what?

4. Back at the YMCA, what does Maya convince the cook to bring to one of the women dining there?

5. How does Maya feel living in Africa?

(see the answer key)

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