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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 does Ken do for Anna in the end of Chapter 16 at the airport?
(a) Pays a bribe for her to get through security.
(b) Carries her bag for her.
(c) Tells security she is the daughter of the prime minister.
(d) Helps her get through security by saying she is with him.

2. What does Afua suggest the family do in Chapter 24 to incorporate Anna's presence in the family?
(a) Paint Anna's portrait.
(b) Update the family tree in the Segu house.
(c) Have someone write a song for Anna.
(d) Throw a party.

3. How does Kofi tell Anna in Chapter 20 he confirmed she is his daughter?
(a) By having someone draw her blood when she was not looking.
(b) Her DNA on his cutlery and glass.
(c) By taking a photo of her.
(d) By asking her to tell him something only Bronwen would have known.

4. What does Anna pay to have done to her at the market in Chapter 17?
(a) Her wrist tattooed.
(b) Her makeup done.
(c) Her hair made into cornrows.
(d) Her fortune read.

5. What does Ken tell Anna Kofi is planning to do in Chapter 25?
(a) Write another memoir.
(b) Leave the country himself.
(c) Overthrow the government.
(d) Contest the election.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Marcellina's fiance?

2. Where are most of Marcellina's old classmates?

3. What does the zoo in the countryside of Bamana have that no one else in the country as, according to Kofi?

4. What does Anna order for her first meal when staying in her lavish room in the countryside in Chapter 22?

5. How do Anna and Kofi get to Kofi's country home in Chapter 21?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 17, what does Anna have done to her hair and what does she think of it?

2. Who does Anna meet in Bamana when she arrives, and why?

3. What does Anna think of the lodgings in Gbadolite?

4. What does Anna do the night before her flight to Bamana?

5. How does Afua greet Anna initially?

6. Why did Anna never really try to make a go of art school when she was young?

7. In Chapter 23, what is the purpose of Kofi's congress with the people?

8. What happens between Anna and Ken in Chapter 17?

9. In Chapter 22, what does seeing the crocodiles at feeding time seem to symbolize for Anna?

10. Why does Anna tell people on the street in Bamana she is not an "obroni?"

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