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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. When Maya and her friends talk with a couple who have just arrived from the United States, what do they tell the couple?
(a) Life in Ghana is easy.
(b) The food in Ghana is terrible.
(c) Life in Ghana is hard.
(d) Ghanaian cuisine is the best food they've ever had.

2. In Ghana, Maya is invited to an "outdooring." What is an outdooring?
(a) Outdoor potluck.
(b) House painting party.
(c) Neighborhood campfire.
(d) Baby naming ceremony.

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

4. When Maya goes into the Senior Common Room during a break one morning, she hears a group of professors and others discussing what?
(a) Apartheid in South Africa.
(b) The Vietnam War.
(c) Civil Rights Movement in the U.S.
(d) The race between nations to reach the moon first.

5. Maya's steward introduces her to Kojo. Who is Kojo?
(a) Famous Ghanaian photographer.
(b) Homeless man looking for food.
(c) World renowned cook.
(d) Young boy looking for work.

Short Answer Questions

1. After living with a friend in Accra, Maya and her son move to the:

2. Following Maya's reaction to the Senior Common Room discussion, what does the steward do?

3. After listening to the negative talk going on in the Senior Common Room discussion Maya walks into, how does she react?

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

5. Why did Maya first go to the office of the Ghanaian Times?

(see the answer key)

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