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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Summer: Chapters 9-15.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What items do the pallbearers request be brought to them?
(a) Wrenches.
(b) Shovels.
(c) Hammers.
(d) Lead pipes.

2. What aspect of Amma's carriage at the Ghanafoo celebration is ridiculed by other Ghanaians at the party?
(a) Her usage of formal English.
(b) Her usage of English.
(c) Her usage of Twi.
(d) Her usage of English slang.

3. In what type of physical greeting do Amma and Belinda engage when they first meet?
(a) A comfortable hug.
(b) A mechanical hug.
(c) Air kisses.
(d) A handshake.

4. What quality of Belinda's does Nana say will eventually bring Amma around?
(a) Empathy.
(b) Grace.
(c) Gentleness.
(d) Strictness.

5. What action does Belinda take in relation to seeing the coffin?
(a) She forces herself to look at it.
(b) She cannot look at it.
(c) She cannot look away from it.
(d) She can only look at it for brief moments at a time.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Belinda becomes uncomfortable with Amma's story about a beating, she steers the conversation to what subject?

2. What is the name of Mary's alter ego?

3. What quality of a particular singer's voice does Amma name when she explains her affinity to Belinda?

4. Belinda that she believes she will miss "how quickly and dramatically" Mary's what appears able to change?

5. What object is described in the prologue as "like a slice of wedding cake" (ix)?

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