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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. What does Maya work on with Efua at the National Theatre?
(a) Moroccan musical.
(b) Shakespearean tragedy.
(c) Chinese play.
(d) Contemporary comedy.

2. How do the people of Ghana feel about the migration of American blacks to their nation?
(a) They don't trust any foreigners.
(b) They are more concerned with their own troubles.
(c) They welcome the newcomers with open arms.
(d) They want all the newcomers to go back home.

3. In the Senior Common Room discussion Maya walks into, she hears an Englishman and a Ghanaian speaking rudely about what?
(a) The U.S. President.
(b) Egyptian leaders.
(c) Ghana's government.
(d) Kenyan students.

4. What does the hairdresser tease Maya about?
(a) Her American accent.
(b) Her American clothes.
(c) Having only one child.
(d) Having no boyfriend.

5. Kojo tells Maya that he wants to go to school where?
(a) Alzira.
(b) Agulu.
(c) Accra.
(d) Atlanta.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Maya invites her visitors into the living room, she finds that:

2. How does the receptionist at the Ghana Broadcasting office treat Maya?

3. Maya and her friends, Vicki and Alice, open up their home for whom?

4. When Maya and her friends talk with a couple who have just arrived from the United States, what do they tell the couple?

5. At the celebration at Aburi, Maya is given a handkerchief which she uses to:

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why do the Revolutionist Returnees organize a march to the American Embassy?

3. How is Maya treated by the villagers at Dunkwa?

4. Back in Accra, why is Maya taken to the home of Nana Nketsia, a local tribe chief and adviser to the president?

5. Why does Malcolm X go to Ghana?

6. Who accompanies Malcolm X to the airport?

7. What important discovery does Maya make at the market in Keta?

8. What do Vicki and Alice tell a newly arrived American couple from Chicago?

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

10. Who are the "Revolutionist Returnees?"

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