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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the ultimate consequence of Anowa's behavior, as stated in the prologue?
(a) Reward.
(b) Abandonment.
(c) Death.
(d) Disappointment.

2. Who originally tells Aidoo the story of Anowa?
(a) Her father.
(b) Her aunt.
(c) Her grandmother.
(d) Her mother.

3. How many reasons are there for the villagers to be angry with Anowa, in regard to her marital choices?
(a) Two.
(b) None.
(c) Three.
(d) One.

4. What is the other woman in Phase one carrying?
(a) Soup.
(b) Vegetables.
(c) Clothes.
(d) Wool.

5. What is Anowa dipping at the beginning of Phase one?
(a) Vegetables.
(b) Water.
(c) Clothes.
(d) Meat.

6. Anowa's personality/attitude _________ her from those around her.
(a) Alienates.
(b) Entices.
(c) Confuses.
(d) Draws.

7. How many of these relationship couplings are presented within the play?
(a) One.
(b) Four.
(c) Three.
(d) Two.

8. Badua is concerned for Anowa's __________.
(a) Happiness.
(b) Career.
(c) Husband.
(d) Future.

9. Anowa represents a ____________ to the conventional ways of her village.
(a) Benefit.
(b) Threat.
(c) Change.
(d) Youth.

10. Aidoo writes her play during what major political literary movement?
(a) Post modernist.
(b) Cultural relativism.
(c) Realism.
(d) Pan-African.

11. According to Osam, Anowa is not like _____________.
(a) Other girls.
(b) He and Badua.
(c) Other people.
(d) Other boys.

12. What does Anowa have to do in order to become a high priestess?
(a) Fast.
(b) Pray five times a day.
(c) Apprentice.
(d) Spend time in solitude.

13. What word best describes the connection between Kofi Ako and Anowa, as seen toward the beginning of the play, according to the text?
(a) Intense.
(b) Crazy.
(c) Fleeting.
(d) Heartfelt.

14. What is the surest way for Badua to get Anowa to do something?
(a) To encourage it.
(b) To force it.
(c) To ignore it.
(d) To forbid it.

15. As explained in the prologue, who sets up the tale of Anowa?
(a) Tribe elders.
(b) The ghost of Anowa.
(c) Slave boys.
(d) Badua.

Short Answer Questions

1. Badua believes that Kofi Ako comes from what kind of family?

2. How many different approaches to life does Being-The-Mouth-That-Eats-Salt-And-Pepper take?

3. By the end of Phase one, the old man believes that Anowa is destined for ________________.

4. As stated in the prologue, who is the most important enemy for the Fanti, as well and the British?

5. What type of input do the people of Anowa's village have in regard to how their country is run politically?

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