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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 is the path Anowa is believed to be destined for?
(a) Loving mother and wife.
(b) High priestess.
(c) Guardian.
(d) A slave.

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

3. The grand theme of this play lies mainly in what?
(a) Relationships.
(b) Family.
(c) Love.
(d) Tradition.

4. Which political category best suits Anowa's character?
(a) Feminism.
(b) Socialism.
(c) Masochism.
(d) Libertarianism.

5. Which character is at the center of the play?
(a) The land.
(b) The old man and woman.
(c) Anowa.
(d) Badua.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year does Aidoo write "Anowa"?

2. What does Osam say about the men from Kofi Ako's family?

3. Aidoo writes her play during what major political literary movement?

4. Who does Anowa bring her chores to when they are completed?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Kofi Ako die?

2. Who is the old man described in the prologue, and how is he described?

3. What does Anowa realize about Kofi Ako by Phase three?

4. What is Anowa's position on purchasing slave labor?

5. Describe the reasoning that the old man gives for the anger of those in the Yebi village toward Anowa?

6. What is Kofi Ako's status by the beginning of Phase three

7. What is the old man's view on the situation?

8. Describe the weather in the opening of Phase two.

9. How does the old woman react to the encounter between Badua and Anowa?

10. Because of the "glue" that shapes the Yebi village, why does that make Anowa's character even more problematic?

(see the answer keys)

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