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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. Who are Sonny's birth parents?
(a) Willie and Robert.
(b) Willie and H.
(c) Willie and Eli.
(d) Willie and Lil' Joe.

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

3. When we meet H, what is happening to him?
(a) He is being chained by several policemen.
(b) He is working to meet the mine quota.
(c) He is walking away from the plantation as a free man.
(d) He is cheating on Ethe.

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

5. When is H sold as a convict to work in the mines?
(a) July, 1865.
(b) July, 1880.
(c) July, 1965.
(d) July, 1980.

Short Answer Questions

1. After both father figures walked out on the family, what living conditions do Willie, Sonny, and Josephine NOT face?

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

3. Why does Yaw not want to go to America to further his ideas for freedom of the Asante?

4. What job does Sonny end up with after quitting the NAACP?

5. Who are Marcus's parents?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Amani get her name? What does this name prove about her?

2. Why does the move to the Cape Coast allow Akua to move from being the Crazy Woman to Old Lady?

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

4. Why might the novel Lord of the Flies be symbolic?

5. What prompts Sonny to give up his work for the NAACP?

6. In what ways has Willie marched?

7. How does Yaw use his scars to teach history to his students?

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

9. Why is it significant that Sonny chooses this nickname over his actual name, Carson?

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

(see the answer keys)

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