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

2. What is Anna's daughter's name?

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

4. What brought Anna's father to London originally?

5. Where does Anna decide to travel to meet with Adrian?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What does Anna find out about Bronwen's ambitions from Francis's diary?

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

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

6. Why does Anna really want her mother's flat to sell in Chapter 13?

7. Why has Anna never met her father?

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

9. What influence did Melenik seem to have on Francis Aggrey?

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 Anna's trip to the brush with Kofi Adjei change their relationship right towards the end of the novel? 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

Why does Anna think Katherine is the person she ends up calling when she is most in distress? Why do you think this is the case, when Anna has far closer relationships? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.

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