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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What type of effect does Anowa's behavior have on her marriage with Kofi Ako?
(a) None.
(b) Positive.
(c) Their marriage is slowly getting better.
(d) Negative.

2. According to Kofi Ako in Phase two, Anowa's willfulness makes her what kind of person?
(a) A horrible person.
(b) A kind person.
(c) An exceptional person.
(d) A stubborn person.

3. What is it that keeps Anowa from returning to Yebi?
(a) Guilt.
(b) Humiliation.
(c) Humility.
(d) Pride.

4. Anowa is told to do what with these memories, present in her monologue?
(a) Keep them close.
(b) Use them as a source of strength.
(c) Hold on to them always.
(d) Forget them.

5. How does Kofi Ako commit suicide?
(a) Poison.
(b) Drowning.
(c) Gunshot.
(d) Hanging.

6. Anowa's chief concern at the beginning of Phase two is _______.
(a) She misses her parents.
(b) That Kofi Ako doesn't love her any more.
(c) That she is too weak to work.
(d) That she does not yet have a child.

7. Whom does Anowa begin talking to during her breakdown in Phase three?
(a) The spirits of her siblings.
(b) The house furnishings.
(c) The slaves.
(d) The tribe elders.

8. What type of footwear does Anowa wear?
(a) Cheaply made shoes from animal skins.
(b) Cloth shoes.
(c) She is barefoot.
(d) Rich leather shoes.

9. What is the weather like at the beginning of Phase two?
(a) Sunny.
(b) Cold.
(c) Hot, but not too hot.
(d) Raining.

10. Who seems particularly excited about Kofi Ako's arrival into town?
(a) Young women.
(b) Badua.
(c) Anowa.
(d) Kofi's mother and sister.

11. The scene of the funeral procession is what type of ending, as intended by Aidoo?
(a) Additional ending.
(b) Open ending.
(c) Narrative ending.
(d) Optional ending.

12. By the middle of Phase two, how is the business of Anowa and Kofi Ako doing?
(a) It is prosperous.
(b) It is doing poorly.
(c) It plumets.
(d) It is doing alright.

13. Toward the middle of Phase two, Badua and Osam discuss that it is wrong to deny whom their heritage?
(a) Anowa.
(b) Both Kofi Ako and Anowa.
(c) Their grandchildren.
(d) Kofi Ako.

14. What does Anowa realize about Kofi Ako in Phase three?
(a) That he becomes impotent.
(b) That he goes mad.
(c) That he does not love her.
(d) That he is a bad man.

15. What is Kofi Ako carrying toward the end of Phase two as he and Anowa continue their trade?
(a) A light bundle.
(b) Large sticks.
(c) Only one animal skin.
(d) A large bundle of animal skins.

Short Answer Questions

1. Anowa begins a monologue regarding an incident that occurs when she is what age?

2. What word does Kofi Ako use to describe Anowa's body?

3. What does the old woman call Anowa toward the end of Phase two?

4. How many years pass by Phase two?

5. How does Anowa feel about work?

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