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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. After living with a friend in Accra, Maya and her son move to the:
(a) Motel Six.
(b) YMCA.
(c) Crystal Hostel.
(d) Legassi Gardens Apartments.

2. This memoir covers the author's life during which time frame?
(a) Late nineties.
(b) Mid sixties.
(c) Late seventies.
(d) Mid forties.

3. Maya Angelou is a world-renowned:
(a) Singer, graphic designer, and sculptor.
(b) Poet, writer, and performer.
(c) Minister and counselor.
(d) Politician and ambassador.

4. 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 reaction of blacks to treatment received in America 300 years ago.
(c) The decision by whites to keep the races apart in South Africa.
(d) The futility of the Vietnam War.

5. Who was T.D. Kwesi Bafoo?
(a) Editor of the Ghanaian Times.
(b) Owner of Ristorante Ghana Primavera.
(c) President of the University of Ghana.
(d) Director of Ghana's YMCA.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Maya regard T.D. Bafoo and his wife?

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

3. After listening to the negative talk going on in the Senior Common Room discussion Maya walks into, how does she react?

4. What else does Professor J.H. Nketia help Maya with?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Who are Alice and Vicki?

2. Describe Sheikhali's and Maya's first date.

3. While drinking schnapps at Nana Nketsia's home, what do Nana, Maya, and poet Kwesi Brew discuss?

4. What does Maya do in order to look more like Ghanaian women?

5. When she arrives at Ghana, what is Maya Angelou's intention?

6. What happens to Comfort, Maya's hairstylist?

7. Describe the thanksgiving feast Maya attends in Aburi.

8. Why does Maya go to Germany?

9. How does Kwame Nkrumah, Ghana's new president, regard the Americans who have moved to his country?

10. Explain why Efua tells Maya that Africa is falling apart.

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