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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What draws Yaw to Esther?
(a) She is a good cook.
(b) She is educated.
(c) She is beautiful.
(d) She is everything he is not.

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

4. Which of the following is a death that makes Sonny feel hopeless?
(a) Abraham Lincoln, who was president.
(b) John F. Kennedy, who was president.
(c) The barber, who is Sonny's friend.
(d) Rosa Jordan, who was pregnant.

5. How long has it taken H to save $5?
(a) Two decades.
(b) His whole life.
(c) Six months.
(d) Ten years.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Yaw skeptical of the concept of forgiveness?

2. What is ironic about Kofi Poku's relationship with Crazy Woman?

3. Why does Yaw consent to teaching the boys in English?

4. When we meet H, what is happening to him?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How do Marjorie and Marcus help each other?

2. How does H's imprisonment prove the inequalities faced by other black men during this time period?

3. What about H puts him in danger with the police and the bosses?

4. Why does H move to Pratt City, rather than going on to some other town?

5. Why do the villagers associate all white men, even the missionary, with the word "obroni" or "Wicked Man" (180)?

6. What is interesting about the marriage between Akua and Asamoah?

7. What enables Willie to begin singing again in church?

8. How does Yaw help Esther relax when she first comes to work for him?

9. How can the character of Graham be compared to Willie's Robert?

10. Why does Robert choose to live the life of a white man?

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