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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 3 (pages 58-93).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the hairdresser tease Maya about?
(a) Having no boyfriend.
(b) Her American clothes.
(c) Her American accent.
(d) Having only one child.

2. As an American, how does Maya regard the African culture she is discovering?
(a) She feels like she fits right in.
(b) It's far more advanced than American culture.
(c) It's no different than much of American culture.
(d) It's foreign to her.

3. Why does Alice, Maya's friend, decide to move to Ghana?
(a) To help endangered species.
(b) To fulfill a promise she made to her dying mother.
(c) To work as a social worker.
(d) To find a husband.

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

5. How do the people of Ghana feel about the migration of American blacks to their nation?
(a) They don't trust any foreigners.
(b) They are more concerned with their own troubles.
(c) They welcome the newcomers with open arms.
(d) They want all the newcomers to go back home.

Short Answer Questions

1. Maya Angelou is a world-renowned:

2. What does Maya work on with Efua at the National Theatre?

3. What job does Maya's friend, Vicki, get in Africa?

4. After Maya's friends Alice and Vicki tell the Chicago stockyard worker and his wife about life in Ghana, what does the man do?

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

(see the answer key)

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