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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 does Austin say his mother's advice would be if she were alive?
(a) To do the best for yourself.
(b) To make sure you donate half of your salary.
(c) To just love and be kind to everyone.
(d) To travel as much as possible.

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

3. What is one thing Sahel worries about Thula over?
(a) She is too short.
(b) She is too tall.
(c) She has very small breasts and is very thin.
(d) She is too womanly and might be taken advantage of.

4. What will Sahel always remember from the massacre?
(a) The blood.
(b) The sound of the guns.
(c) The heat.
(d) The screams.

5. Why does Yaya worry for Sahel?
(a) Her loneliness.
(b) Her fiery spirit.
(c) Her anxiety.
(d) Her destitution.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was one of the few people not to believe Pexton's lies from the beginning?

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

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

4. Who is the village elder who competed to be village head in Part III and lost?

5. How does Thula get to school every day?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Why do Thula and Austin separate?

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

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

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

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

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

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