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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When does Thula's first letter from America arrive?
(a) 3 months after she leaves.
(b) 10 months after she leaves.
(c) 8 months after she leaves.
(d) 1 year after she leaves.

2. How does Thula sign her last letter of Part III to her age-mates?
(a) Faraway.
(b) Kindly.
(c) Blessings.
(d) I'll Always Be One of Us.

3. What does The Restoration Movement eventually do in New York?
(a) File papers with a court there against Pexton.
(b) Disband.
(c) Start a protest movement.
(d) Look for more donors.

4. Who is the village elder who competed to be village head in Part III and lost?
(a) Woja.
(b) Gona.
(c) Roja.
(d) Pondo.

5. What does Thula think of the Restoration Movement?
(a) They are trying to con Kosawa.
(b) They might actually be able to help Kosawa.
(c) They are only interested in their land in America.
(d) They are good Christians.

6. What kind of women is there an abundance of in the villages, according to Sahel?
(a) Second wives.
(b) Widows.
(c) Free spirits.
(d) Entrepreneurs.

7. What does Yaya recall from when she was a little girl?
(a) European visitors to Kosawa for the first time.
(b) Riding in a car for the first time.
(c) Petting a cat for the first time.
(d) Seeing oil for the first time.

8. How does Thula get to school every day?
(a) Boat.
(b) Bus.
(c) Car.
(d) Walking.

9. Why does Sahel kick Sonni out of her hut?
(a) He insults her mother.
(b) He steals from her.
(c) He tells her the truth about Thula.
(d) He tries to seduce her.

10. Who do the soldiers take from the square on the day of the massacre?
(a) Pondo and Sahel.
(b) Bongo, Lusaka, Beki, and Konga.
(c) Sonni and Pondo.
(d) Halar and Sonni.

11. What is Thula shocked to learn about in America?
(a) How much textbooks there cost.
(b) How the courts work.
(c) The subjugation of some of its own people.
(d) How the restaurants work.

12. What is one reason Thula breaks up with Austin?
(a) They have different visions for change in the world.
(b) They fight all the time.
(c) Austin wants children and Thula does not.
(d) Thula wants children and Austin does not.

13. What is one big regret Yaya has about her own marriage?
(a) How little she cooked.
(b) That she only had two sons.
(c) How little money she had.
(d) How little she laughed.

14. Who suggests that women marrying each other is not a bad idea?
(a) Helena.
(b) Pendar.
(c) Farro.
(d) Aisha.

15. Who does Thula meet from her past in America?
(a) Austin.
(b) Roja.
(c) Helen.
(d) Pondo.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do The Five bring up the "necessity" of the second day of Thula's visit?

2. What great memory did Yaya's husband tell her about?

3. Who tells a story about burning down a government building in his own European country as a youth?

4. What kind of leader is the leader of Thula's country?

5. What does The Sweet One ask Sahel to do in Part IV that she refuses to do?

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