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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In their leisure time, Mawi and his brother would go hunting with what?
(a) Boomerangs.
(b) Spears.
(c) Rocks.
(d) Slingshots.

2. What was the name of the bully who decided to go after Mawi's brother?
(a) Mike Thompson.
(b) Roger Botwin.
(c) Bobby Smith.
(d) Jake Evans.

3. What job did Mawi's father take upon moving to the United States?
(a) Plumber.
(b) Janitor.
(c) Cook.
(d) Carpenter.

4. What was the name of the woman who helped Mawi's family find a sponsor in the area in "A New Life"?
(a) Sarah.
(b) Ruth.
(c) Beth.
(d) Maude.

5. What is the capital of Eritrea?
(a) Djibouti.
(b) Awad.
(c) Asmara.
(d) Adi Wahla.

6. What was the name of the woman who would take the children to the college to play soccer and play on the playground in "God's Angels"?
(a) Ruth.
(b) Charlene.
(c) Sarah.
(d) Beth.

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

8. Frank and Mbago were brothers from _______________.
(a) Djibouti.
(b) Nigeria.
(c) China.
(d) Eritrea.

9. What would bullies draw over Mehret's locker in "Playground Warfare"?
(a) Rainbows.
(b) Skeletons.
(c) Snakes.
(d) Hearts.

10. Before a family could immigrate to the United States, they needed to do what in "Coming to America"?
(a) Learn U.S. history.
(b) Pay a fee.
(c) Recite the Pledge of Allegiance.
(d) Take a test.

11. How old was Mawi's older brother when his family departed across the desert as refugees in "Memories"?
(a) 14.
(b) 12.
(c) 8.
(d) 5.

12. For the first two weeks that Mawai's family lived in the United States, they shared a two bedroom hotel room in what city?
(a) New York.
(b) Chicago.
(c) San Francisco.
(d) Denver.

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

14. What is a literary device in which an author indistinctly suggests certain plot developments that might come later in the story?
(a) Metaphor.
(b) Protagonist.
(c) Foreshadowing.
(d) Irony.

15. The bully who stole Mawi's bird in "The Camp" later had to join what, where he became one of the "list of senseless casualties"?
(a) The Sudanese Republican Army.
(b) The Ethiopian liberation movement.
(c) The Liberian liberation movement.
(d) The United Nations.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Mawi's father, angels often appeared in what form?

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

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

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

5. What was Mawi's father's homeland?

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