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

2. What does Anna wear to her second meeting with Kofi?

3. What does Anna ask Christina in Chapter 18?

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

5. Who comes to see Anna at her hotel in Chapter 20 that she is not expecting?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Kofi have a change of heart and invite Anna to meet again?

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

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

4. What episode from Kofi's past does Anna find most disturbing?

5. What does Kofi ask Anna to remember when she acknowledges that she has heard bad things about his conduct as president?

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

7. In Chapter 17, what shocks Anna about seeing the puppy on the street?

8. What does Anna think about Ken when she meets him on the plane after seeing him when she gets her visa?

9. Why does Anna not tell anyone - except for Adrian Bennett - who her father really is in Bamana?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What are Anna's feelings when she finds out what became, eventually, of her father Francis Aggrey in Bamana? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to support your conclusions.

Essay Topic 2

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 3

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.

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