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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. What disease did Haileab develop in "The Unmaking of a Man"?
(a) Diabetes.
(b) Epilepsy.
(c) Multiple sclerosis.
(d) Cancer.

2. What was one of several topics to avoid talking about with their parents, according to the author in "Coffee Tales"?
(a) Politics.
(b) Money.
(c) Sex.
(d) Africa.

3. What job did Mawi and Tewolde do first in order to make money in "Libee Migbar"?
(a) Drove cabs.
(b) Landscaping.
(c) Restructured damaged driveways.
(d) Sorted recycling.

4. Where did Mawi's mother send her sons for safekeeping when the armies came close to their home in "Coffee Tales"?
(a) Her father's home.
(b) Her cousin's home.
(c) Her sister's home.
(d) Her brother's home.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. On what date was Mawi Asgedom born?

3. What refers to an athletic conference comprising eight private institutions of higher education in the Northeastern United States?

4. Mawi describes admiring and wanting to be like whom in "Eyeing the Mountaintop"?

5. Whom did Tewolde ask to help him transport a weight bench?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Mawi and his brother learn about their father's departure in "Coffee Tales"?

2. How does the author describe his father's transformation in America in "The Unmaking of a Man"?

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

4. Where does Mawi describe his father reciting poetry in "The Unmaking of a Man"? What did he think of the poetry?

5. How did Mawi and his brother almost get arrested in "Days of Mischief"? What words of their father did they recall?

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

7. What did Mawi know not to discuss with his parents as a child? How did he and his brother learn about the past in "Coffee Tales"?

8. Who related stories of Haileab to Mawi in "The Unmaking of a Man"? What did Mawi realize about his father after hearing these stories?

9. What correlation did the author find between Halloween and holidays from his homeland in "Days of Mischief"?

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

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