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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Mawi and his brother almost died from __________________ when they were sent away from their mother.
(a) A snake.
(b) A flash flood.
(c) A lion.
(d) A sandstorm.

4. The man that Tewolde took the weight bench to in "Libee Migbar" was the same man from where?
(a) The library.
(b) The church.
(c) The bank.
(d) The cemetery.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Haileab earned further education and became what as opposed to a full-fledged doctor?

2. For how long was Mawi separated from his father while in Africa during his childhood?

3. How far did Mawi run to get to athletic practices at the school?

4. What month was it when the author described giving a stranger his lunch at the library?

5. Where was Haileab raised?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where did Haileab find control in his life, according to the author in "The Unmaking of a Man"?

2. What did Mawi realize about his family in "Eyeing the Mountaintop"? Who did he hope to become like?

3. How did Tewolde acquire a weight bench in "Libee Migbar"? Whom did he ask to help transport it?

4. What faux pas did Haileab commit at the family's new residence in "The Unmaking of a Man"?

5. How did Mawi's father come to work essentially as a doctor, as described in "The Making of a Man"?

6. How does the author describe his brother's transformation in "Libee Migbar"?

7. What led to Tewolde developing his own business in "Libee Migbar"?

8. What led Mawi's mother to eventually leave for Sudan with her children, as revealed in "Coffee Tales"?

9. What led to Mawi's father leaving alone for Sudan, as related in "The Making of a Man"?

10. Where did Tewolde and Mawi take the weight bench in "Libee Migbar"? What discovery did Mawi make of his brother?

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