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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 major movement is happening in the United States while Maya lives in Africa?
(a) Civil rights.
(b) Gay rights.
(c) Children's rights.
(d) Immigration rights.

2. Why does Maya invite a hairdresser to her home?
(a) She's terribly lonely and wants a new friend.
(b) She would like the hairdresser to meet her son.
(c) She wants her hair done in the fashion of Ghanaian women.
(d) She wants to hear gossip about the locals.

3. At the start of the story, what is Maya's predominant feeling about what happens to her son?
(a) Confusion.
(b) Anger.
(c) Disappointment.
(d) Elation.

4. How does the author feel about discrimination?
(a) She tolerates it when it's convenient.
(b) She doesn't spend much time thinking about it.
(c) She understands why some choose to discriminate.
(d) She cannot accept it in any form.

5. Who are the "Revolutionist Returnees?"
(a) Africans working to end hunger.
(b) Americans trying to spread democracy.
(c) South African freedom fighters.
(d) Americans seeking refuge in Africa.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Aburi, Maya and her friend watch a parade where Maya especially enjoys what?

2. In the Senior Common Room discussion Maya walks into, she hears an Englishman and a Ghanaian speaking rudely about what?

3. When Maya and her friends talk with a couple who have just arrived from the United States, what do they tell the couple?

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

5. After being treated poorly by some in Ghana, Maya wonders what?

(see the answer key)

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