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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 7 (pages 184-208).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the receptionist at the Ghana Broadcasting office treat Maya?
(a) Patiently.
(b) Refuses to talk with her.
(c) Rudely.
(d) Offers her a soda.

2. Why does Malcolm X refuse to dance during a party in his honor given by the Ghana Press Club?
(a) He cannot celebrate when fellow African-Americans are suffering.
(b) He believes dancing is undignified.
(c) It is against his religious upbringing.
(d) He dances only with his wife, and she is not present.

3. When Malcolm X goes to talk in Accra, he has just completed a pilgrimage to where?
(a) Medina.
(b) Jerusalem.
(c) Mecca.
(d) Nazareth.

4. Who was T.D. Kwesi Bafoo?
(a) Editor of the Ghanaian Times.
(b) Owner of Ristorante Ghana Primavera.
(c) Director of Ghana's YMCA.
(d) President of the University of Ghana.

5. Why does Nana Nketsia go to Maya's house?
(a) To invite her to a church ceremony.
(b) To ask her to attend a writer's conference.
(c) To escort her to his home.
(d) To ask questions about a crime.

Short Answer Questions

1. What major movement is happening in the United States while Maya lives in Africa?

2. What did the Revolutionist Returnees plan in conjunction with Martin Luther King's march in Washington DC?

3. In Accra, Malcolm X speaks of his falling out with:

4. How does the author feel about discrimination?

5. At the start of the story, what is Maya's predominant feeling about what happens to her son?

(see the answer key)

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