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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 16 and 17, and Back Matter.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following immediately precedes Chapter 17?
(a) “If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping in a room with a mosquito.”
(b) “By rising as one, we rise, each one.”
(c) “Do unto others what you would have done to you.”
(d) “It takes a village to raise a child.”

2. Into what high school had Elizabeth sought to gain entry?
(a) Roosevelt.
(b) Eisenhower.
(c) Truman.
(d) Kennedy.

3. From which city does the narrator fly to London for the first time?
(a) Bulawayo.
(b) Gweru.
(c) Chimoio.
(d) Harare.

4. From which of the following does the comment come that precedes Chapter 14?
(a) Congo.
(b) Ghana.
(c) Niger.
(d) New York.

5. Chapter 16 opens with which of the following?
(a) “My pulse quickens the moment I answer the phone in my office at the United Nations.”
(b) “To celebrate the use of symbols, which are an important aspect of African culture and its languages, the book incorporates two Adinkra symbols from Ghana.”
(c) “I fumble in the dark, moving toward a light that flickers inside a small building with dusty, steel-barred windows.”
(d) “My story is a testament that we all have the ability to uplift one another and create positive change in our communities.”

Short Answer Questions

1. What nickname does Sam have for Elizabeth?

2. What color are Amai’s shoes when she first picks Elizabeth up from Gogo?

3. How does Val refer to Elizabeth?

4. Over access to what do the lion and the elephant fight in Gogo’s story?

5. Elizabeth notes the development of a “husband school” in which of the following countries?

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