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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Making of a Man - Eyeing the Mountaintop.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What would Mawi's father do whenever the armies approached?
(a) Go into hiding.
(b) Throw water at them.
(c) Tell them to go away.
(d) Insult them.

2. Mawi's family was first cleared to go to the United States in what year?
(a) 1982.
(b) 1978.
(c) 1990.
(d) 1985.

3. After Tewolde's death, Mawi was looking through his room and found a picture of a boy that his brother had ______________.
(a) Sent candy to.
(b) Gotten a wife for.
(c) Sponsored.
(d) Sent to China.

4. What country borders Eritrea to the south?
(a) Nigeria.
(b) Sudan.
(c) Ethiopia.
(d) Djibouti.

5. Haileab decided to help the neighbors by cleaning up their leaves and getting garbage out of __________________.
(a) A storm drain.
(b) The lake.
(c) The creek.
(d) A ditch.

Short Answer Questions

1. Mawi's father told his children that they should always treat _________________well because they could turn out to be angels.

2. What animals does the author remember shrieking in the beginning of "Memories"?

3. On what date was Mawi Asgedom born?

4. What library did Mawi and his brother often go to in "Libee Migbar"?

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

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