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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. What color car does Yaya drive?

2. What time does Mensah, Afri's driver, pick her up for school?

3. How long did Afi and Olivia live with Daavi Christy and her children?

4. How far is the first school that Afi and Yaya visit from King's Court?

5. How long does the wedding last?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Eli meet the woman from Liberia?

2. What does Afi say about stress as Mawusi checks Afi's makeup for the fifth time?

3. Who took in Olivia and Afi after Illustrious died?

4. How many students does Sarah have and how does she select students?

5. Why does Afi wonder about her name in Chapter 2?

6. What is school like at Sarah's?

7. What is Afi's apartment like?

8. When did Afi first hear about the Liberian woman, and what did she hear?

9. What preparations do Afi and Olivia make for Eli's arrival?

10. What does Afi think of the second school she visits with Yaya?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Olivia and Afi are indebted to the Ganyos. How are Olivia and Afi indebted to the Ganyos? How does this debt cause disparity and inequality in their relationships with one another?

Essay Topic 2

Afi’s father died ten years ago. How did Olivia and Afi’s lives change after Illustrious’s death? What regrets does Olivia have regarding their life together? Why does she have these regrets?

Essay Topic 3

Other characters do not listen to Afi’s complaints. What is Afi suffering in her marriage? How do characters respond to her complaints? How do characters invalidate her feelings?

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