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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Anna learn her mother once dreamed of doing from the materials she finds in her mother's belongings after her mother's death?
(a) Paint.
(b) Become an architect.
(c) Design and sell clothes in London.
(d) Sing.

2. In Chapter 12, what does Anna learn has happened to Thomas?
(a) He is working at the university.
(b) He is very sick in the hospital.
(c) He moved back to Bamana.
(d) He is dead.

3. In Chapter 9, what does Anna suspect Robert has been doing recently?
(a) Working overtime.
(b) Drinking.
(c) Smoking marijuana.
(d) Having sex.

4. What is Anna's father's name?
(a) Richard Polter.
(b) Henry James.
(c) James Henderson.
(d) Francis Aggrey.

5. What is the first question the divorce lawyer asks Anna in Chapter 3?
(a) If she has any living relatives besides her daughter.
(b) How much money she has.
(c) If she really wants a divorce.
(d) If she has gone on vacation lately.

6. When does Anna remember she stopped straightening her own hair?
(a) When Robert left her.
(b) When she turned 40.
(c) When Rose went to secondary school.
(d) When she lost her hair to chemo.

7. Who was Anna's mother's sister, and Anna's beloved aunt?
(a) Caryl.
(b) Blessing.
(c) Helena.
(d) Afua.

8. Why did Anna and Robert separate?
(a) Robert had an affair.
(b) Anna got sick and Robert left her.
(c) Robert told her he wanted a divorce.
(d) Anna had an affair.

9. What group does Kofi found in 1971?
(a) The Fairford Seven.
(b) The Leftist Profile.
(c) The Mining Rights Group.
(d) The Diamond Coast Liberation Group.

10. What work did Anna once do?
(a) Architecture.
(b) Medicine.
(c) Teaching.
(d) Law.

11. What does Katherine tell Anna she used to work at?
(a) Medicine.
(b) Banking.
(c) Law.
(d) Teaching.

12. In Chapter 9, who does Anna write to to ask if they can meet to talk about Francis's diary?
(a) Ken Folsom.
(b) Rachel Sklarson.
(c) Adrian Bennett.
(d) James Henry.

13. Where did Anna go on her first date with her husband?
(a) An Italian restaurant.
(b) The movies.
(c) The beach.
(d) The theater.

14. What activist and leader has a large impact on Anna's father's thinking in London as a young man?
(a) Menelik.
(b) Alger.
(c) Mendele.
(d) Horatio.

15. What meeting does Anna's father's friend Thomas invite him to in Chapter 2?
(a) The British Communist Party.
(b) The Royal Society.
(c) The John Birch Society.
(d) The Neo-Nazi Party.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who writes a comprehensive book about Anna's father that she reads in Chapter 7?

2. Where does Anna go to do research the week before traveling to meet Adrian?

3. What does Anna's mother leave her in her will that surprises Anna?

4. What is Anna's daughter's name?

5. Who is Anna's real estate agent?

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