View a FREE sample

This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. After Maya's friends Alice and Vicki tell the Chicago stockyard worker and his wife about life in Ghana, what does the man do?
(a) Applies for work immediately.
(b) Threatens to leave.
(c) Accuses them of lying.
(d) Goes into a depression.

3. Who is Julian Mayfield?
(a) Professor of Maya's son.
(b) Maya's son's doctor.
(c) Maya's boss.
(d) Friend of Maya's.

4. Maya learns that Kojo's family are middle class:
(a) Restaurant cooks.
(b) Teachers.
(c) Construction workers.
(d) Farmers.

5. A big part of the reason that Maya is in Africa during this time period is to what?
(a) Locate her long-lost parents.
(b) Make more money than she could in the United States.
(c) Better understand the continent of her ancestry.
(d) Get ahead in life by learning new languages.

6. What article is Maya asked to write when she looks for journalism work in Africa?
(a) America Today.
(b) African Heritage.
(c) Reflections of Africa.
(d) American Cuisine.

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

8. What does Sheikhali want Maya to do for his children?
(a) Babysit them while he goes to Egypt.
(b) Walk them to and from school.
(c) Take them on a trip to the United States.
(d) Teach them French and English.

9. When Maya first goes to the Ghana Broadcasting office, who does she want to talk with?
(a) The only American working there.
(b) The person who hires writers.
(c) The person who interviews local guests.
(d) The senior vice president of the company.

10. After Maya's visit with Efua Sutherland, she goes to the hospital and finds that:
(a) They desperately need volunteers.
(b) Her son has been moved to another hospital.
(c) There is a severe staff shortage.
(d) Her son is in good spirits and doing well.

11. Which of the following is not a prominent theme in the book?
(a) Redemption.
(b) Discovery.
(c) Discrimination.
(d) Frivolity.

12. In the Senior Common Room discussion Maya walks into, she hears an Englishman and a Yugoslav woman ridicule what?
(a) The silliness of trying to reach the moon.
(b) The futility of the Vietnam War.
(c) The reaction of blacks to treatment received in America 300 years ago.
(d) The decision by whites to keep the races apart in South Africa.

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

14. What else does Professor J.H. Nketia help Maya with?
(a) Finding a car.
(b) Contacting the president.
(c) Learning the language.
(d) Running a campaign.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Efua takes Maya to Aburi, a town near Accra, for what?

2. How were Americans regarded in Ghana after an assassination attempt on the Ghanaian president?

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

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

5. How does Maya feel living in Africa?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 576 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample