Homegoing Quiz

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What is the most likely explanation for Cudjo’s disappearance? (from Part 1, Chapter 3 )

He wanted to be married to Nana Yaa himself, and resented her being given to Quey.

He inflicted the fatal wound on Fiifi and was afraid of tribal justice.

He was killed or captured in battle.

He realized that there was no hope of any kind of relationship with Quey, and stayed away.

What is the most likely reason that James Collins becomes angry when he learns what Effia did to try to become pregnant? (from Part 1, Chapter 1)

He wants his black “wife” to be as white as possible.

He is afraid that the ritual will work.

He is afraid that the ritual will not work.

He wants to believe his black “wife” is incapable of having children.

What is the most likely reason that Marjorie tells her mother that the phone call from Graham is something unimportant? (from Part 2, Chapter 6 )

Marjorie is too angry about Graham’s rejection to trust herself to speak respectfully to her mother.

Marjorie is worried what her father would say if he ever found out she has been asked to the prom.

Marjorie does not want her mother to know that Marjorie had spent any kind of time dating a white boy.

Marjorie has realized that she is better off not having Graham and his racist attitudes in her life.

Narration refers to the death by suicide of H’s mother. Who is H’s mother, and what is the likeliest reason for her killing herself? (from Part 2, Chapter 1)

H’s mother is Anna, Kojo’s wife, who probably killed herself because she felt she had accomplished the last thing she had to do: carry her child to term.

H’s mother is Anna, a white woman impregnated as a result of rape who probably killed herself out of shame over giving birth to a black child.

H’s mother is Anna, Kojo’s wife, who probably killed herself because she felt being out of her son’s life was the best way for him to live a life of freedom.

H’s mother is Akosua, Kojo’s wife, who probably killed herself because she felt she had accomplished the last thing she had to do: carry her child to term.

When Willie refers to white people putting black men in coal mines, what particular experience is she probably referring to? (from Part 2, Chapter 5)

Her own experience working as a virtual slave / housekeeper in a coal-mining white family.

The experience of her grandfather (Kojo) working as a virtual slave in a coal mine.

Her own experience working as a virtual slave as a cook at a coal mine.

The experience of her father (H) working as a virtual slave in a coal mine.