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

2. In Chapter 9, where has Anna recently returned from?
(a) India.
(b) Spain.
(c) Africa.
(d) United States.

3. 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.

4. Who starts a conversation with Anna when she is trying to get her paperwork sorted out to go to Bamana in Chapter 15?
(a) Rose.
(b) Ken.
(c) Helen.
(d) Randy.

5. What does Anna find in her mother's belongings that gives her great insight into her own father's life?
(a) Her father's diary.
(b) Her father's thesis.
(c) Her father's photo album.
(d) Her father's letters to her mother.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who encourages Anna to see a divorce lawyer?

2. In Chapter 9, what does Anna suspect Robert has been doing recently?

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

4. What violent incident does Anna find out Kofi was implicated in some years earlier in Bamana?

5. What always calms Aunt Caryl down when Anna visits?

Short Essay Questions

1. What precipitates Anna's separation from her husband Robert?

2. Who does Anna find out that Francis Aggrey briefly dated before becoming involved with her mother?

3. What does Anna find out about Francis Aggrey and Bamana that shocks her?

4. Who pushes Anna to start divorce proceedings with her husband, and why?

5. What does Anna think of church when she goes with Katherine?

6. What was Francis Aggrey's experience as a young Black man in London in 1969?

7. What did Francis Aggrey go on to do in his home country of Bamana after leaving England?

8. Why does Adrian Bennett get angry with Anna after reading all of Francis's diary?

9. What is Anna's Aunt Caryl like in terms of personality?

10. Why does Anna want to go see Adrian Bennett?

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