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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 the guard force the children to do?
(a) Stay in their beds all day.
(b) Study 12 hours a day.
(c) Eat to fatten them up.
(d) Clean the house.

2. What does Jigana want to do to Maisha's clients?
(a) Fight them.
(b) Strangle them.
(c) Shoot them.
(d) Stab them.

3. The guard questions the children about ___________________.
(a) Their schooling.
(b) The neighbors.
(c) Their new background stories.
(d) Fofo.

4. Why do the children take Baby to town with them?
(a) The store owner gives them candy.
(b) They want to buy her some ice cream.
(c) They can teach her songs.
(d) People give more money when Baby is with them.

5. What does Big Guy promise to give the gravediggers?
(a) A new car.
(b) Drugs.
(c) Fofo's motorcycle.
(d) Gold coins.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do Jigana and his family live?

2. When Maisha says she wants to get a full-time job, Jigana knows she is thinking about _________________________.

3. How old is Maisha?

4. Mama thanks Maisha for _________________.

5. Fofo Kpee tells the congregation that his new riches come from ______________________.

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is Fofo Kpee?

2. What are the reasons that Jigana tears up his school items and runs away from the family?

3. Why does Mama give her children glue to sniff on Christmas morning?

4. What is the importance of "the bad night" when Fofo masturbates in front of the children?

5. How does Fofo Kpee explain the delivery of the new motorcycle to the children?

6. Why would Kotchikpa think that the motorcycle is a reward from God?

7. What does the motorcycle symbolize in the story?

8. How does Maisha's physical appearance symbolize her stolen innocence derived from her beauty?

9. What is the true extent of Mama's gratitude toward Maisha when she gets on her knees to thank her daughter?

10. Why does Mama try to break into Maisha's trunk?

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