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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. Who is Grace Nuamah?
(a) Head cook.
(b) Dance teacher.
(c) Head custodian.
(d) Fante teacher.

2. Efua takes Maya to Aburi, a town near Accra, for what?
(a) Thanksgiving feast.
(b) Graduation ceremony.
(c) Birthday party.
(d) Baby naming ceremony.

3. To thank Maya for finding her misplaced pay envelope, what does Grace Nuamah do?
(a) Treats Maya to lunch.
(b) Buys Maya a purse.
(c) Takes Maya to the movies.
(d) Writes a poem for Maya.

4. How does the receptionist at the Ghana Broadcasting office treat Maya?
(a) Patiently.
(b) Refuses to talk with her.
(c) Rudely.
(d) Offers her a soda.

5. What is Maya asked during the celebration in Aburi?
(a) If she would like Sheikhali to tie her green bandanna in the traditional style.
(b) To please stop staring at Sheikhali because it's rude.
(c) If she would have dinner with Sheikhali.
(d) If she would like to dance with Sheikhali.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the author feel about discrimination?

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

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

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

5. At the celebration at Aburi, Maya is given a handkerchief which she uses to:

(see the answer key)

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