2. What memento of Marjorie's has Old Lady put in the ocean so that Marjorie will always be able to find home?
(a) The necklace.
(b) Marjorie's umbilical cord.
(c) Marjorie's diary.
(d) Marjorie's copy of Lord of the Flies.

3. Who are Akua's parents?
(a) Abena and Quey.
(b) Abena and Ohene Nyarko.
(c) Abena and the missionary.
(d) Abena and the fetish man.

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

5. What gift does Akua NOT give to Yaw?
(a) A monetary inheritance.
(b) The necklace.
(c) A mother.
(d) Freedom that comes with forgiveness.

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

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

8. What happens as a result of H's choice to shovel two-handed?
(a) H is permanently paralyzed.
(b) Riots break out.
(c) Thomas, the white man H helps, decides that he must return the favor.
(d) H is beaten savagely.

9. How does Willie try to make peace with Carson?
(a) By taking him to a movie.
(b) By buying him a toy.
(c) By telling him stories about his father.
(d) By walking with him.

10. Who are Marjorie's parents?
(a) Yaw and Akua.
(b) Effia and James.
(c) Yaw and Esther.
(d) Akua and Asamoah.

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

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

13. What does Marjorie's kindergarten teacher tell her parents?
(a) That Marjorie would benefit from special education classes.
(b) That Marjorie has been speaking Twi in class.
(c) That Marjorie is the brightest student in the class.
(d) That Marjorie talks too much to her peers.

14. Why can Sonny not forgive his mother?
(a) Because she is a maid.
(b) Because she refuses to call him Sonny.
(c) Because he does not know his father.
(d) Because she is a drug addict.

15. How old was Akua when she first began to dream of the firewoman?
(a) 20.
(b) 40.
(c) 15.
(d) 16.