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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Marjorie's poem about?
(a) Whips and questions.
(b) Two sisters separated by time and water.
(c) The Castle.
(d) The cocoa nut and sand.

2. What song does Willie sing at her parents' funeral?
(a) I Shall Wear a Crown.
(b) I'll Fly Away.
(c) Amazing Grace.
(d) Beulah Land.

3. What is something Marcus would not HAVE to mention in his dissertation?
(a) The Civil Rights Movement.
(b) The Great Migration.
(c) Drug addiction.
(d) Jim Crow laws.

4. Why does Yaw consent to teaching the boys in English?
(a) Yaw's school is paid for by the British Colony.
(b) Yaw believes English is beautiful.
(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. Which of the following is a death that makes Sonny feel hopeless?
(a) The barber, who is Sonny's friend.
(b) John F. Kennedy, who was president.
(c) Rosa Jordan, who was pregnant.
(d) Abraham Lincoln, who was president.

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

7. What lesson does Esther teach Yaw?
(a) Anger is futile.
(b) Happiness comes from love.
(c) Anger is the key to revolution.
(d) Peace is the future.

8. What does Yaw hope his book will prove?
(a) An academic rage.
(b) A call to war.
(c) A plea for freedom.
(d) A truce with Britain.

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

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

11. What feeling does Marjorie create within Marcus?
(a) A feeling of being found and truly understood.
(b) A feeling of distress and anxiety.
(c) A feeling of love and attraction.
(d) A feeling of hatred and fear.

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

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

14. Why does Sonny ironically wish for more segregation in America?
(a) He wishes for the days of Jim Crow.
(b) He wants America to become more like Ghana.
(c) His employment options are better with segregation.
(d) Everywhere he goes, he is reminded of the inequality he faces.

15. What do the unions NOT fight for from the mining companies?
(a) Better pay.
(b) More vacation days.
(c) Better ventilation.
(d) Fewer hours.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who are Akua's parents?

3. Which is NOT a consequence of Robert's abandonment of the family?

4. How old was Akua when she first began to dream of the firewoman?

5. How old was H when the slaves were emancipated?

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