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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whose contact information does Adrian eventually give to Anna so she can try to get in touch with Kofi?
(a) His daughter's.
(b) His wife's.
(c) His supervisor's.
(d) His personal assistant's.

2. What work did Anna once do?
(a) Law.
(b) Teaching.
(c) Architecture.
(d) Medicine.

3. What did Anna's grandmother do to support her father when he was a child?
(a) Make clothes.
(b) Style hair.
(c) Become a prostitute.
(d) Fish.

4. Who was Anna's mother's sister, and Anna's beloved aunt?
(a) Helena.
(b) Blessing.
(c) Caryl.
(d) Afua.

5. Why does Anna's father quickly go back to his country of birth in Chapter 4?
(a) His mother is very ill.
(b) There is a great job opening for him there.
(c) His brother has been killed.
(d) He is very homesick.

6. What does Anna do with Katherine in Chapter 6?
(a) Goes to the gym with her.
(b) Goes to the courthouse with her.
(c) Goes to church with her.
(d) Goes for a manicure with her.

7. What object is Adrian most interested in and excited about that Anna brings to him in Chapter 10?
(a) Francis's letters to Anna's mother.
(b) Francis's diary.
(c) Francis's old suit.
(d) Francis's voice recordings from his time in the hospital.

8. What is the name of Anna's father's friend Thomas's wife?
(a) Joy.
(b) Patience.
(c) Blessing.
(d) Rumor.

9. What is the Bamanian word for "foreigner" or more broadly "white person"?
(a) Gringo.
(b) Ghost.
(c) Blanche.
(d) Obroni.

10. What poet's words does Anna's daughter choose for Anna's mother's headstone?
(a) Yeats.
(b) Lord Byron.
(c) Keats.
(d) Rossetti.

11. What is the capital of Bamana?
(a) Cairo.
(b) Niger.
(c) Wendwo.
(d) Segu.

12. What does Anna have to secure before going to Bamana?
(a) A letter of intent from someone in the county.
(b) A visa.
(c) A bank account with at least 10,000 Bamanian dollars in it.
(d) A Bamanian passport.

13. What kind of profession did Rose briefly flirt with as a teenager?
(a) Modeling.
(b) Journalism.
(c) Law.
(d) Landscaping.

14. Who is one of Aunt Caryl's regular caregivers in Chapter 14?
(a) Blessing.
(b) Maria.
(c) Helena.
(d) Hettie.

15. What animal does Kofi say provided much-needed sustenance while he and others camped out in the bush?
(a) Antelope.
(b) Armadillo.
(c) Rat.
(d) Mountain Lion.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Anna unwittingly do when she is having her Bamanian paperwork processed?

2. When was Anna's father released from prison in Bamana?

3. What does Katherine tell Anna she used to work at?

4. Who does Anna call in Chapter 4 when she has a panic attack who picks up the phone and talks to her?

5. What does Anna realize she is embarrassed about telling Thomas's wife about?

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