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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are the names of the reborn Sakani and Jakani?
(a) Ricki and Bama.
(b) Lorni and Farni.
(c) Bamako and Cotonou.
(d) Victor and Maki.

2. What is hard for Thula to adjust to in America?
(a) The drugs.
(b) The trees.
(c) The cold.
(d) The heat.

3. Who tells Sahel his uncle is searching for a new wife in Bezam?
(a) The Smart One.
(b) The Cute One.
(c) The Thin One.
(d) The Leader.

4. Why does Sahel kick Sonni out of her hut?
(a) He steals from her.
(b) He insults her mother.
(c) He tries to seduce her.
(d) He tells her the truth about Thula.

5. Who is the village elder who competed to be village head in Part III and lost?
(a) Woja.
(b) Gona.
(c) Pondo.
(d) Roja.

6. Who tells a story about burning down a government building in his own European country as a youth?
(a) Hugo.
(b) Heli.
(c) Maxim.
(d) Alexander.

7. What does The Sweet One tell Yaya and Sahel about Thula?
(a) She is dying.
(b) She is egging on the youth in Kosawa to make trouble.
(c) She is coming home soon.
(d) She is not really learning in America.

8. Who do many people tell Yaya is a replica of her own husband?
(a) Sahel.
(b) Juba.
(c) Bongo.
(d) Thula.

9. Who does Sahel once think she wishes she married?
(a) Neba.
(b) Woja.
(c) Joe.
(d) Juya.

10. What is one big regret Yaya has about her own marriage?
(a) That she only had two sons.
(b) How little money she had.
(c) How little she cooked.
(d) How little she laughed.

11. What do The Five bring up the "necessity" of the second day of Thula's visit?
(a) Acquiring guns.
(b) Her teaching them all how to argue in court.
(c) Her having a baby.
(d) Her staying in Kosawa.

12. What did the Europeans tell the Kosawans that made the Kosawans laugh in Part IV?
(a) Their ancestors were burning in a fire.
(b) They had books that could teach them religion.
(c) Their children were assured to go to heaven.
(d) They only needed to bathe in a sacred river to cleanse their spirits.

13. How old was Sahel when her own father died?
(a) 12.
(b) 20.
(c) 8.
(d) 10.

14. Who does Thula meet from her past in America?
(a) Austin.
(b) Roja.
(c) Pondo.
(d) Helen.

15. Who does Sahel begin to flirt with at times in Part III?
(a) The Sweet One.
(b) The Thin One.
(c) The Leader.
(d) The Cute One.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does The Sweet One ask Sahel to do in Part IV that she refuses to do?

2. What did Big Papa sometimes do if he did not like the food Yaya cooked for him?

3. What is Thula shocked to learn about in America?

4. Who is Sahel surprised to hear is marrying in Thula's fourth year of school?

5. Who was Woja Beki's father?

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