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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. Who does Anna spend time with the night before her flight to Bamana?
(a) Katherine and Rose.
(b) Robert.
(c) Adrian.
(d) Ken.

2. What does Ken tell Anna Kofi is planning to do in Chapter 25?
(a) Overthrow the government.
(b) Leave the country himself.
(c) Contest the election.
(d) Write another memoir.

3. What cousin does Anna meet in Chapter 25?
(a) Helena.
(b) Araba.
(c) Ricarda.
(d) Florence.

4. Where is Adrian staying?
(a) The Pool Hotel.
(b) The Hilton Hotel.
(c) The Palace Hotel.
(d) The University of Bamana guesthouse.

5. Where has Kofi recently returned to Bamana from?
(a) The United Nations Council Meeting.
(b) The Group of Seven Meeting.
(c) The World Economic Forum in Davos.
(d) The African Union Summit.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Anna go alone in the end of Chapter 17?

2. How old does Kofi say he was when Anna was born?

3. Which of Kofi's others daughters besides Anna is an artist?

4. In Chapter 16, what does Anna tell Katherine?

5. Where do Anna and Kofi stay in the countryside in Chapter 22?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Kofi ask Anna to remember when she acknowledges that she has heard bad things about his conduct as president?

2. How does Anna's first meeting with Kofi go?

3. Why does Anna not tell anyone - except for Adrian Bennett - who her father really is in Bamana?

4. In Chapter 22, what does seeing the crocodiles at feeding time seem to symbolize for Anna?

5. What does Anna think about Ken when she meets him on the plane after seeing him when she gets her visa?

6. Who does Anna meet in Bamana when she arrives, and why?

7. What episode from Kofi's past does Anna find most disturbing?

8. Why does Kofi have a change of heart and invite Anna to meet again?

9. What does Marcellina show Anna that deeply disturbs her?

10. In Chapter 17, what shocks Anna about seeing the puppy on the street?

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