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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do the mine bosses replace the striking miners?
(a) By bringing in more and younger convicts.
(b) By doing the work themselves.
(c) By lowering the quotas.
(d) By raising pay to attract more candidates.

2. How did Robert and Willie meet?
(a) Robert would come to see her sing at union meetings.
(b) They met at school
(c) Robert and Willie both sang in the church choir.
(d) Their parents arranged their marriage.

3. What prompts the Asante men to go to war with the British Colony?
(a) The fact that the women are calling for battle.
(b) The fact that King Prempeh I has been sold into slavery.
(c) The fact that their pride has been injured.
(d) The fact that the British have declared war.

4. Why does Yaw consent to teaching the boys in English?
(a) Yaw believes English is beautiful.
(b) Yaw's school is paid for by the British Colony.
(c) There are too many dialects to try to teach in them all.
(d) It is time to teach the boys the language of commerce.

5. What is Sonny's birth name?
(a) Richard.
(b) Asamoah.
(c) Carson.
(d) Robert.

6. When Sonny asks Amani what kind of name she has, what is her response?
(a) Mine.
(b) Christian.
(c) Pretend.
(d) Muslim.

7. What does Willie mean when she tells Sonny, "Keep doin' what you doin' and the white man don't got to do it no more" (263)?
(a) Sonny's work as a custodian is dead-end work.
(b) Sonny should return to Ghana.
(c) Sonny's heroin addiction is keeping him a slave.
(d) Sonny's work with the NAACP is hugely successful.

8. Why does Asamoah choose to save Akua from the people of Edweso?
(a) He loves Akua more than anything else.
(b) He does not want to care for Yaw alone.
(c) He has lost enough without also losing her.
(d) His mother tells him he must save his wife.

9. What happened to H's mother, Anna?
(a) H does not know what happened to her.
(b) She killed herself, making the master deliver H by C-section.
(c) She was returned to Kojo as a free woman.
(d) She died in the mines.

10. Where does Marcus get his interest in history?
(a) From watching National Geographic.
(b) From all the books Willie gave him.
(c) From his favorite teacher, Mrs. Pinkston.
(d) From Sonny's lessons on racial injustice.

11. What is the inspiration for Marjorie's poem?
(a) Yaw's memories of Ghana.
(b) Marjorie's visits to the Cape Coast Castle.
(c) The necklace.
(d) The dream stories Old Lady has told her.

12. Why does Marjorie release Graham from any relationship with her?
(a) He has made clear that he is embarrassed by others' reactions to their relationship.
(b) They do not have much in common.
(c) He has not asked her to prom.
(d) He just is not very smart.

13. Why is Yaw skeptical of the concept of forgiveness?
(a) He believes it is a lesson to keep the oppressed subjugated.
(b) He wants to tend his anger like a flower garden.
(c) He has never felt forgiveness for his own wrongdoings.
(d) He believes that the angry are powerful.

14. After both father figures walked out on the family, what living conditions do Willie, Sonny, and Josephine NOT face?
(a) Squatting in Willie's mother's boss's house.
(b) A bigger, better apartment for themselves.
(c) Cramped conditions with up to forty people.
(d) The risk of homelessness.

15. What have the British done to King Prempeh I?
(a) Exiled him.
(b) Provided him with more power.
(c) Killed him.
(d) Blackmailed him into obeying them.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long has it taken H to save $5?

2. What memento of Marjorie's has Old Lady put in the ocean so that Marjorie will always be able to find home?

3. How does Marcus describe Marjorie?

4. How long does it take Yaw to realize he is in love with Esther?

5. Where do Marjorie and Old Lady's best talks occur?

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