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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What health struggles has Rose been through as a young woman?

2. What poet's words does Anna's daughter choose for Anna's mother's headstone?

3. What does Anna learn her father changed his name to once he moved back to Bamana?

4. Where does Anna stay when she visits Adrian in Edinburgh?

5. Where does Anna's Aunt Caryl live in Chapter 14?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why has Anna never met her father?

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

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

4. What does a researcher at the library tell Anna about Kofi Adjei, which Francis Aggrey changed his name to?

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

6. What began the romance between Bronwen and Francis Aggrey?

7. Why does Adrian Bennett suspect that Anna wants to meet Kofi?

8. How does Adrian Bennett react when Anna brings him Francis Aggrey's diary?

9. How does Anna first find Francis Aggrey's diary?

10. How does Anna begin to learn about what Francis did after leaving England?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How does Onuzo describe Anna's range of conflicting feelings about her estranged husband Robert on the eve of her own trip to Bamana? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.

Essay Topic 2

What are some specific experiences of racism that Anna remembers from growing up as a mixed-race female in London throughout the 1970s and 1980s? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.

Essay Topic 3

What are Anna's feelings about motherhood, and about her own experience as a mother to Rose? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.

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