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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Who are Yaw's parents?
(a) H and Ethe.
(b) Abena and Ohene.
(c) Anna and Kojo.
(d) Akua and Asamoah.
2. Who are Akua's parents?
(a) Abena and the missionary.
(b) Abena and Ohene Nyarko.
(c) Abena and Quey.
(d) Abena and the fetish man.
3. Why does Yaw not want to go to America to further his ideas for freedom of the Asante?
(a) He fears he is too old and that he will not be able to make the journey.
(b) He says it is better to start at home with ancestral lessons.
(c) He cannot afford to move and has no prospects for employment.
(d) He does not speak the language and he is afraid to learn.
4. What injures Marcus's relationship with both parents?
(a) Their deaths.
(b) Their poverty.
(c) Their embarassment of him.
(d) Their heroin addictions.
5. Why does Sonny ironically wish for more segregation in America?
(a) His employment options are better with segregation.
(b) He wants America to become more like Ghana.
(c) Everywhere he goes, he is reminded of the inequality he faces.
(d) He wishes for the days of Jim Crow.
6. 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 heroin addiction is keeping him a slave.
(b) Sonny's work as a custodian is dead-end work.
(c) Sonny should return to Ghana.
(d) Sonny's work with the NAACP is hugely successful.
7. When is H sold as a convict to work in the mines?
(a) July, 1980.
(b) July, 1880.
(c) July, 1965.
(d) July, 1865.
8. What is something Marcus would not HAVE to mention in his dissertation?
(a) The Great Migration.
(b) The Civil Rights Movement.
(c) Jim Crow laws.
(d) Drug addiction.
9. 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) Cramped conditions with up to forty people.
(c) The risk of homelessness.
(d) A bigger, better apartment for themselves.
10. Where do Marjorie and Old Lady's best talks occur?
(a) At Old Lady's house in Edweso.
(b) On the phone at night.
(c) On the beach in Cape Coast.
(d) At Marjorie's apartment in Huntsville, Alabama.
11. Why does Marjorie release Graham from any relationship with her?
(a) They do not have much in common.
(b) He just is not very smart.
(c) He has not asked her to prom.
(d) He has made clear that he is embarrassed by others' reactions to their relationship.
12. In the summer of 1964, what is going on in Harlem?
(a) A blackout.
(b) Nothing much.
(c) The Women's March.
(d) Race riots.
13. How does Marcus describe Marjorie?
(a) Light-skinned and thin.
(b) Thin with an afro.
(c) Thick with dreadlocks.
(d) Dark-skinned and sturdy.
14. What prompts the Asante men to go to war with the British Colony?
(a) The fact that King Prempeh I has been sold into slavery.
(b) The fact that the British have declared war.
(c) The fact that their pride has been injured.
(d) The fact that the women are calling for battle.
15. What is Sonny's birth name?
(a) Richard.
(b) Robert.
(c) Asamoah.
(d) Carson.
Short Answer Questions
1. How do the mine bosses replace the striking miners?
2. What do the unions NOT fight for from the mining companies?
3. How long has it taken H to save $5?
4. What is Marjorie's poem about?
5. Which is NOT a consequence of Robert's abandonment of the family?
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