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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 Aidoo use to help in the construction of the play's characters?
(a) Historical elements.
(b) Creation mythology.
(c) African heritage.
(d) Her mother.

2. Which word does Badua use to describe Kofi Ako in Phase one?
(a) Dumb.
(b) Crazy.
(c) Lazy.
(d) Mean.

3. How does the other party react, when seeing the nature of the connection between Kofi Ako and Anowa in Phase one?
(a) The people ignore it.
(b) The woman drops her tray.
(c) Badua begins crying.
(d) Osam yells loudly.

4. What type of tale is this play based from?
(a) A Ghanian legend.
(b) A Ghanian love dance.
(c) A creation myth.
(d) An African song.

5. Who, in Phase one, makes the suggestion of Anowa becoming a high priestess?
(a) Badua.
(b) Kofi Ako.
(c) Osam.
(d) Anowa.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the ultimate consequence of Anowa's behavior, as stated in the prologue?

2. What is the other woman in Phase one carrying?

3. How do Kofi Ako and Anowa react to the other party's reaction of their affection in Phase one?

4. Which is the first character that the audience meets?

5. What is the surest way for Badua to get Anowa to do something?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Kofi Ako's reputation?

2. How is life lived in the village of Yebi?

3. How does the old woman react to the encounter between Badua and Anowa?

4. As can be seen in Phase two, what is Anowa's chief concern?

5. What do the slave children say about Kofi Ako and Anowa?

6. How does Anowa react to Kofi Ako's request that she buy a new dress?

7. What does Kofi Ako wish for as Anowa sleeps?

8. Who does Anowa begin talking to after her great realization in Phase three? What does she say?

9. What is the primary conflict between Anowa and her parents as describe in the Prologue?

10. How does Kofi Ako die?

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