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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 His Excellency obsessed with?
(a) Guns.
(b) Youth and longevity.
(c) Food.
(d) Oil.

2. When does Yaya think things with Pexton get worse than ever?
(a) When a child disappears from the Garden.
(b) When they run out of food.
(c) When the young boys get guns.
(d) When Pexton cuts down more trees.

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

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 joyful.
(b) She has no wishes for it.
(c) She hopes it will take a hundred eternities.
(d) She hopes it will be swift and painless.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Thula meet from her past in America?

2. Why does Yaya worry for Sahel?

3. How do Bongo and Lukasa die?

4. Who tells Yaya about Big Papa's having been abused?

5. What do the boys of the village do during the manhood passage?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is Yaya's one real regret about her marriage?

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

4. Whose is the first blood to spill in the massacre in Part III in Kosawa's town square?

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

6. What ultimately happens to Bongo in Part III?

7. Why do Thula and Austin separate?

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

9. In Part IV, what does the Sweet One tell Sahel and Yaya about Thula's actions in America?

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

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