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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. As an American, how does Maya regard the African culture she is discovering?

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

3. What job does Alice, Maya's friend, find in Ghana?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Who are the "Revolutionist Returnees?"

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

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

5. Who are Alice and Vicki?

6. What changes Maya's plans, causing her to stay in Ghana indefinitely?

7. What happens when Ms. Angelou goes to the office of the "Ghanaian Times" in her search for work?

8. Who accompanies Maya when she has breakfast with the German couple?

9. Describe the thanksgiving feast Maya attends in Aburi.

10. What is the mood during the meal when Maya and Torvash talk with Dieter and his wife?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Maya's friends help shape her attitudes and even her behavior. Explain how Maya's friends in Ghana help her to "grow up" and adjust to life in another country.

Essay Topic 2

Explain how the author's usage of feelings, including disappointment, elation, and confusion, adds a broader dimension to the narrative.

Essay Topic 3

Explain Maya's reasons for going to Africa.

1. What does she hope to find there?

2. Where does she end up?

3. Did she intend to live there? Why or why not?

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