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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 7 (pages 184-208).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Maya's son's name?
(a) Jerome.
(b) Guy.
(c) Al.
(d) Robert.

2. At the celebration at Aburi, Maya is given a handkerchief which she uses to:
(a) Tie back her hair.
(b) Clean a child's face.
(c) Wave in the air.
(d) Wipe her tears.

3. Among those who come to say farewell to Maya as she boards a plane headed back home are:
(a) All of them.
(b) Her son.
(c) Nana Nketsia.
(d) Grace Nuamah.

4. When Efua and others read in the evening paper that a dead boy's family has finally come forward to take his body, how do they feel?
(a) Relieved.
(b) Insulted.
(c) Disappointed.
(d) Suspicious.

5. Who is Nana Nketsia?
(a) Star of Ghana's top soap opera.
(b) Leader of Ghana's Anglican Church.
(c) Adviser to the president.
(d) Chief of police.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Malcolm X?

2. After Maya explains to the Chicago stockyard worker and his wife that she and her friends are simply trying to prepare the couple for the realities of life in Ghana, what does the couple decide?

3. Following what happens to Maya's son, Efua Sutherland gives her permission to what?

4. While watching dancers at the festival in Aburi, what does Maya notice?

5. When Maya takes a trip into the bush and meets with a tribal leader, where does the man think Maya is from?

(see the answer key)

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