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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. What do Sahel and the other women always take to their visits to the prisoners from Kosawa?
(a) Music.
(b) Food.
(c) Books.
(d) Pictures.

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

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

4. What does Sahel tell Malabo's spirit about her wishes for his journey from this world to the next?
(a) She hopes it will be swift and painless.
(b) She hopes it will be joyful.
(c) She hopes it will take a hundred eternities.
(d) She has no wishes for it.

5. Why does Sahel resent Malabo so much after his disappearance?
(a) She resents him for chasing money.
(b) She resents the fact that he always worked so hard.
(c) She resents the affairs he had.
(d) She resents him for leaving her and the children alone.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Thula say a promise appears to mean to Pexton?

2. What is one thing Sahel worries about Thula over?

3. Who tells Sahel his uncle is searching for a new wife in Bezam?

4. Who goes to Bezam to welcome Thula home from America?

5. Who suggests that women marrying each other is not a bad idea?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Sahel think of Malabo's choice to travel to Bezam in Part III?

2. How does Sahel feel about taking care of Yaya?

3. How does Yaya describe her own devotion to Big Papa?

4. Why do Thula and Austin separate?

5. Who did people tell Yaya Thula was a replica of?

6. What first got Thula to speak more often in Part III?

7. How does Thula survive the massacre in Part III?

8. What does Thula believe - at first - about the Restoration Movement?

9. What ultimately happens to Bongo in Part III?

10. What does Austin do in the aftermath of the massacre in Kosawa in Part III?

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