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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through A New Life - Playground Warfare.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the author describe his father having a fear of and the destructive power behind them in "A New Life"?
(a) Bullets.
(b) Trains.
(c) Headlights.
(d) Glasses.

2. What was Mawi's father's homeland?
(a) Eritria.
(b) Saudi Arabia.
(c) Sudan.
(d) Ethiopia.

3. Where was Mawi's little brother conceived?
(a) Egypt.
(b) China.
(c) Eritrea.
(d) Sudan.

4. When they were still in elementary school, Mawi's brother told him stories about five brothers from where?
(a) China.
(b) India.
(c) Ecuador.
(d) Canada.

5. What name refers to a peninsula in East Africa that juts hundreds of kilometers into the Arabian Sea and lies along the southern side of the Gulf of Aden?
(a) The Hand of Africa.
(b) The Horn of Africa.
(c) The Tongue of Africa.
(d) The Foot of Africa.

Short Answer Questions

1. When a bully came after Mawi and pressed them into a fence, who came to his aid?

2. For the first two weeks that Mawai's family lived in the United States, they shared a two bedroom hotel room in what city?

3. Where did Mawi's mother take him and his siblings to find their father in "Memories"?

4. To make ends meet, Mawi's family found ____________ in "A New Life."

5. What is a literary device in which an author indistinctly suggests certain plot developments that might come later in the story?

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