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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the daily coal quota each man must meet?
(a) Fourteen thousand pounds.
(b) Twenty pounds.
(c) Two thousand pounds.
(d) Ten tons.

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

3. Why does Nana Serwah lock Akua in the hut?
(a) She wants to keep Akua prisoner.
(b) She thinks it will break Akua's trances.
(c) Akua has beaten the children, and this is her punishment.
(d) Asamoah asked his mother to keep an eye on his wife.

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

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

6. How does Willie chastise Eli?
(a) She tells him Robert was a better father.
(b) She tells him people cannot eat poems.
(c) She makes him go to church.
(d) She refuses to let him come home.

7. Where is Sonny when he is first introduced?
(a) In jail.
(b) On his way to Ghana.
(c) Walking the streets of Harlem.
(d) Working for the NAACP.

8. What is the first sign of trouble with Robert when they get to Harlem?
(a) He goes out drinking.
(b) He does not come home the first night.
(c) He spends their savings on a new suit and haircut.
(d) He flirts with a woman on the street.

9. How does Marcus describe Marjorie?
(a) Light-skinned and thin.
(b) Dark-skinned and sturdy.
(c) Thick with dreadlocks.
(d) Thin with an afro.

10. Where do Marjorie and Old Lady's best talks occur?
(a) On the beach in Cape Coast.
(b) At Marjorie's apartment in Huntsville, Alabama.
(c) On the phone at night.
(d) At Old Lady's house in Edweso.

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

12. 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.

13. What job does Sonny end up with after quitting the NAACP?
(a) Custodian at the church.
(b) Singer at the Jazzing.
(c) Civil Rights Attorney.
(d) Bartender at the Jazzmine.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What draws Yaw to Esther?

3. What happened to H's mother, Anna?

4. Who are Akua's parents?

5. What part of Akua's body does she claim is "growing"?

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