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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. This book recounts the author's years in:
(a) Rwanda.
(b) Cameroon.
(c) Ghana.
(d) Kenya.
2. In Aburi, Maya and her friend watch a parade where Maya especially enjoys what?
(a) Beating drums.
(b) Blaring horns.
(c) Australian didgeridoos.
(d) Spanish guitars.
3. What does Sheikhali want Maya to do for his children?
(a) Teach them French and English.
(b) Take them on a trip to the United States.
(c) Walk them to and from school.
(d) Babysit them while he goes to Egypt.
4. When Maya goes into the Senior Common Room during a break one morning, she hears a group of professors and others discussing what?
(a) Apartheid in South Africa.
(b) Civil Rights Movement in the U.S.
(c) The Vietnam War.
(d) The race between nations to reach the moon first.
5. Why did Maya first go to the office of the Ghanaian Times?
(a) To scold a reporter.
(b) To write a classified ad.
(c) To look for work.
(d) To find her son.
Short Answer Questions
1. After Maya's visit with Efua Sutherland, she goes to the hospital and finds that:
2. Professor J.H. Nketia, a friend of Efua Sutherland, ends up giving Maya what?
3. How does Maya feel living in Africa?
4. Who does Kojo remind Maya of?
5. Following Maya's reaction to the Senior Common Room discussion, what does the steward do?
Short Essay Questions
1. Describe who Kojo is.
2. Explain why Efua tells Maya that Africa is falling apart.
3. Who is Sheikhali?
4. How does Maya react to Kojo's request?
5. Back in Accra, why is Maya taken to the home of Nana Nketsia, a local tribe chief and adviser to the president?
6. What work does Maya find in Ghana?
7. How is Maya regarded in the market at Keta?
8. What happens to Comfort, Maya's hairstylist?
9. Why is the first-person point of view especially effective in "All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes?"
10. Who accompanies Malcolm X to the airport?
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