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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 traditional African garment does Kofi wear in some photos Anna sees of him?

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

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

4. Whose address does Adrian give to Anna at the end of Chapter 11?

5. In Chapter 7, what is the title of Anna's father's autobiography?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Anna worry about Rose often?

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

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

4. Why has Anna never met her father?

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How does Kofi Adjei react to Anna's blunt criticisms of his past actions and the current state of Bamana? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.

Essay Topic 2

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.

Essay Topic 3

What are some difficulties that Anna remembers from her relationship with her own mother, Bronwen Bain, that arose from the fact that Bronwen was white and Anna was mixed-race? Write an essay explaining your answers.

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