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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. The trinket box is where Amma keeps all things related to whom?
(a) Aunty.
(b) Roisin.
(c) Nana.
(d) Mary.

2. In Chapter 7, Mary and Belinda communicate with one another using what method?
(a) Phone call.
(b) Telegraph.
(c) Video call.
(d) Mail.

3. The narrator states that Belinda had started working in Aunty and Uncle's house at the same time as which other character?
(a) Nana.
(b) Amma.
(c) Belinda's mother.
(d) Mary.

4. What is the big change to which Belinda refers when discussing her mother's reaction?
(a) Her mother lost one of her three jobs.
(b) Her mother had gotten pregnant.
(c) There was no longer any clean water to drink in the village.
(d) Her father sent a letter stating he could no longer pay Belinda's school fees.

5. Which act by the pallbearers inspires the mourners to respond with cheers?
(a) They engage in a wrestling contest.
(b) They show off their muscles.
(c) They place the coffin in the ground.
(d) They lift the coffin.

Short Answer Questions

1. Amma had first met Roisin at a seminar offered for what type of student?

2. During Amma's portrait-sitting, she asks Helena to tell her a story about a time when Helena was what?

3. Belinda tells Amma that she should attend the traditional event called the Ghanafoo for whose sake?

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

5. What aspect of Amma's carriage at the Ghanafoo celebration is ridiculed by other Ghanaians at the party?

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