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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 5 (pages 128-146).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The chapter with Malcolm X sheds tremendous light on Maya's perspectives regarding:
(a) Professional sports.
(b) The Women's Rights Movement.
(c) Organized religion.
(d) The Civil Rights Movement.

2. What job does Maya's friend, Vicki, get in Africa?
(a) Editor of a prestigious paper.
(b) Cook at the YMCA kitchen.
(c) Typist in a foreign embassy.
(d) House cleaner for a university professor.

3. Back at the YMCA, what does Maya convince the cook to bring to one of the women dining there?
(a) Milk.
(b) Juice.
(c) Beans.
(d) Rice.

4. Who joins the event organized by the Revolutionist Returnees in Ghana to be held during Martin Luther King's march in Washington DC?
(a) Dignitaries, ambassadors, professors, and Ghana's president.
(b) Families, groups of preschoolers, and newlyweds.
(c) Farmers, teachers, volunteers, college students, and vacationers.
(d) Chinese, Australian, Brazilian, and Haitian immigrants.

5. While watching dancers at the festival in Aburi, what does Maya notice?
(a) She wore the wrong shoes.
(b) She finds a large man across the room to be attractive.
(c) Her friend Efua is an amazing dancer.
(d) Everyone is wearing something green.

Short Answer Questions

1. What language do Maya and Sheikhali prefer to converse in?

2. Why does Malcolm X approach the public figure who is leaving the hotel in Accra at the same time he is?

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

4. After Maya tells Malcolm X why she is upset, how does he reply?

5. What major movement is happening in the United States while Maya lives in Africa?

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