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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where was Haileab raised?
(a) A factory.
(b) A mosque.
(c) A monastery.
(d) A castle.

2. What word means to listen secretly to a private conversation?
(a) Overcede.
(b) Succumb.
(c) Intercept.
(d) Eavesdrop.

3. Mawi was a high honor roll student until he hit what level of school in "Eyeing the Mountaintop"?
(a) Elementary school.
(b) High school.
(c) Middle school.
(d) College.

4. Mawi and his brother remembered a story their father had told them about a boy who died for ___________________.
(a) Murder.
(b) Not praying.
(c) Jay walking.
(d) Stealing.

5. How was Tewolde killed in his senior year of high school?
(a) He fell down a flight of stairs.
(b) He had a brain aneurysm.
(c) He was shot while jogging.
(d) He was hit by a drunk driver.

6. What did Haileab regularly have his children get up and do in the mornings?
(a) Pray.
(b) Exercises.
(c) Play Scrabble.
(d) Wash the car.

7. Used to wealth and prestige back in his homeland, Haileab found himself metamorphosed into what in America, according to the author in "The Unmaking of a Man"?
(a) A rat.
(b) A snake.
(c) A beetle.
(d) A slug.

8. What did Mawi realize his father had been at the end of "The Unmaking of a Man"?
(a) A doctor.
(b) A hero.
(c) A thief.
(d) A professional athlete.

9. Who offered Mawi a full-tuition scholarship?
(a) Oxford University.
(b) Wayne State University.
(c) Harvard University.
(d) The University of Michigan.

10. What profession did Haileab have in Africa?
(a) Banker.
(b) Healer.
(c) Food vendor.
(d) Cook.

11. When Haileab left his family, he did so because he knew that if they traveled with him, they would be ____________.
(a) Intercepted.
(b) Robbed.
(c) Considered heroes.
(d) Acclimated.

12. What library did Mawi and his brother often go to in "Libee Migbar"?
(a) The Wheaton Public Library.
(b) The Harvard Library.
(c) The Boston Public Library.
(d) The Philadelphia Public Library.

13. Who died soon after Haileab's birth, as described in "The Making of a Man"?
(a) Haileab's brother.
(b) Haileab's mother.
(c) Haileab's sister.
(d) Haileab's father.

14. Where did Mawi's father work while they were refugees awaiting immigration to America?
(a) The Swedish Ministry clinic.
(b) The United Nations.
(c) The Presbyterian Ministry.
(d) The Red Cross.

15. What forced Haileab into unemployment in "The Unmaking of a Man"?
(a) Vision loss.
(b) Arthritis.
(c) He got fired.
(d) A knee injury.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following sports was Mawi involved in during high school?

2. In "Days of Mischief," what did the villagers of Sudan build for the annual celebration?

3. Haileab surmised that if he went by himself to Sudan, the rebels would think he was just going to __________________.

4. Who suggested that Mawi apply to an Ivy League college?

5. Mawi's brother was killed during what holiday break?

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