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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is Marlene's fiance's mother?
(a) Miss Charlotte.
(b) Miss Henrietta.
(c) Miss Ernestine.
(d) Miss Jacobson.

2. Which friend of Mrs. Johnson's is quite impolite and severe?
(a) Henrietta.
(b) Elizabeth.
(c) Ernestine.
(d) Annie.

3. What does Gbessa think when she first sees Marlene?
(a) Marlene is a farmer.
(b) Marlene is a ghost.
(c) Marlene is a lawyer.
(d) Marlene is a queen.

4. What does Norman teach June Dey to do in order to survive more easily?
(a) Fish.
(b) Build a fire.
(c) Pound papayas into food.
(d) Hunt deer.

5. What are the women June Dey and Norman come upon in the woods doing when they come upon the women?
(a) Gathering water.
(b) Cooking.
(c) Painting.
(d) Swimming.

6. Who kidnaps Gbessa?
(a) British soldiers.
(b) German soldiers.
(c) French soldiers.
(d) American soldiers.

7. Where does June Dey suggest he and Norman travel in the beginning of Part IV?
(a) Freetown.
(b) America.
(c) France.
(d) Britain.

8. Who is the American president at the time Gbessa is captive on the ship?
(a) Lincoln.
(b) Madison.
(c) Monroe.
(d) Polk.

9. What is one difficulty for Gbessa, June Dey, and Norman when they first meet?
(a) Gbessa does not speak the same language as June Dey and Norman.
(b) They are all gravely sick from poisoned water.
(c) Two are blind and the other is deaf.
(d) One is blind and the others are deaf.

10. Who was Sia once married to?
(a) A missionary.
(b) Sam.
(c) Jackson.
(d) Henry.

11. What does Norman see in Part IV that appalls and sickens him?
(a) The blackening-out of the sun.
(b) A pile of dead animals.
(c) The poisoning of a village's water source.
(d) A pile of dead children's bodies that the French have killed.

12. Who was in the hiding place with June Dey, Gbessa, and Norman one night?
(a) Charlotte's spirit on the wind.
(b) Ol' Ma Famatta.
(c) Ol' Ma Nyanpoo.
(d) Safua.

13. Who is the first girl Gbessa meets in Monrovia?
(a) Henrietta.
(b) Ernestine.
(c) Maisy.
(d) Marlene.

14. What makes June Dey sick soon after he and Norman first meet?
(a) Spoiled meat.
(b) A spider bite.
(c) Poisonous plants.
(d) A snake bite.

15. Where does June Dey first land in Africa?
(a) Cape Mesurado.
(b) Nigeria.
(c) Ghana.
(d) Mali.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is it about the chores that gives Gbessa joy?

2. What was the organization that contributed to the American majority's interest in ridding its cities of free Negroes?

3. Who sometimes helps guide Norman and June Dey in their travels?

4. What gift does Norman guess Gbessa might have?

5. Why does Norman want Clay in Part IV?

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