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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. Where does Maya move to with her friends Alice and Vicki?
(a) Three-bedroom bungalow.
(b) City a hundred miles away.
(c) Neighboring quiet village.
(d) Twelfth story of a high-rise.

2. How does Maya feel living in Africa?
(a) Accepted and not disciminated against.
(b) Terribly homesick.
(c) It's no different than living in the United States.
(d) Like a second-class citizen.

3. How does the receptionist at the Ghana Broadcasting office treat Maya?
(a) Patiently.
(b) Rudely.
(c) Refuses to talk with her.
(d) Offers her a soda.

4. How does Maya regard T.D. Bafoo and his wife?
(a) With distrust.
(b) With uncertainty.
(c) With respect.
(d) With anger.

5. While watching dancers at the festival in Aburi, what does Maya notice?
(a) Everyone is wearing something green.
(b) She finds a large man across the room to be attractive.
(c) She wore the wrong shoes.
(d) Her friend Efua is an amazing dancer.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the Senior Common Room discussion Maya walks into, she hears an Englishman and a Ghanaian speaking rudely about what?

2. What is Maya's son's name?

3. At the time of the events of this book, who is Kwame Nkrumah?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Who accompanies Malcolm X to the airport?

2. Describe the friendship that Maya develops with T.D. Bafoo and his wife.

3. Describe who Kojo is.

4. Why does Sheikhali believe that he is doing Maya a favor by offering to marry her?

5. How does Malcolm's encounter with Muhammad Ali go?

6. Who are Alice and Vicki?

7. How does Maya react to Sheikhali's marriage proposal?

8. Why doesn't Malcolm X celebrate during a party the Ghana Press Club throws in his honor?

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

10. How are the Americans in Ghana regarded following an assassination attempt on the nation's president?

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