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

2. Who goes to Bezam to welcome Thula home from America?
(a) The Seven.
(b) The Eighteen.
(c) The Three.
(d) The Five.

3. What does Yaya want Sahel to say yes to?
(a) Razing the hut.
(b) Learning to cook.
(c) Getting a job.
(d) Marrying the man in Bezam.

4. Who does Yaya think often visits Thula after dying?
(a) Bongo.
(b) Juba.
(c) Malabo.
(d) Big Papa.

5. What does The Sweet One ask Sahel to do in Part IV that she refuses to do?
(a) Get married.
(b) Write to Thula and ask her to stop goading The Five in their efforts against Pexton.
(c) Come home immediately.
(d) Learn to drive.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Austin say his mother's advice would be if she were alive?

2. Who do many people tell Yaya is a replica of her own husband?

3. What are the names of the reborn Sakani and Jakani?

4. What does The Sweet One tell Yaya and Sahel about Thula?

5. What do Sahel and the other women always take to their visits to the prisoners from Kosawa?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do the Kosawans think of Mr. Fish?

2. What has Yaya heard about the key to His Excellency's longevity?

3. What do the people from the Restoration Movement promise Sahel specifically?

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

5. What does Sahel tell the Sweet One in Part IV when he tells her about Thula's activities?

6. Who becomes the new village head in Part III, and why is this contentious?

7. When do the Koswans first receive money from Pexton, and why?

8. What shocking revelation does Yaya learn about Big Papa in Part IV?

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

10. Why was Kosawa spared when white people came to snatch Black people for slaves, according to Yaya?

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