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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 refers to an elaborate and complex social system that combines elements of endogamy, occupation, culture, social class, tribal affiliation, and political power?
(a) Majority.
(b) Minority.
(c) Clergy.
(d) Caste.

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

3. What disease had Mawi's father contracted in "A New Life"?
(a) Cancer.
(b) Malaria.
(c) AIDS.
(d) Diabetes.

4. Mawi describes admiring and wanting to be like whom in "Eyeing the Mountaintop"?
(a) Tsege.
(b) Tewolde.
(c) Kiros.
(d) Mehret.

5. What is the name of Mawi's little brother who was born in "A New Life"?
(a) Jake.
(b) Hntsa-Eyesus.
(c) Haileab.
(d) Kiros.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In "The Camp," Mawi was attacked by a bully and his brother came to his rescue, but even before his brother could reach him, what happened?

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

4. What forced Haileab into unemployment in "The Unmaking of a Man"?

5. Through television, Mawi's family discovered that Americans were very concerned with cleanliness and ___________.

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