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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. Following Maya's reaction to the Senior Common Room discussion, what does the steward do?
(a) Reprimands her.
(b) Apologizes to the Englishman.
(c) Laughs out loud.
(d) Applauds her.

2. At the time of the events of this book, who is Kwame Nkrumah?
(a) Popular celebrity in Cameroon.
(b) New president of Ghana.
(c) Charismatic religious leader in Kenya.
(d) Freedom fighter in Rwanda.

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

4. Who was T.D. Kwesi Bafoo?
(a) Director of Ghana's YMCA.
(b) Owner of Ristorante Ghana Primavera.
(c) President of the University of Ghana.
(d) Editor of the Ghanaian Times.

5. Maya decides to help Kojo with what?
(a) Social skills.
(b) Photo developing.
(c) Homework.
(d) Cooking.

Short Answer 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?

2. How do the people of Ghana feel about the migration of American blacks to their nation?

3. At the start of the story, what is Maya's predominant feeling about what happens to her son?

4. A big part of the reason that Maya is in Africa during this time period is to what?

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

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