Homegoing Quiz

Take our free Homegoing quiz below, with 25 multiple choice questions that help you test your knowledge. Determine which chapters, themes and styles you already know and what you need to study for your upcoming essay, midterm, or final exam. Take the free quiz now!

Where did Yaw’s scars come from? (from Part 2, Chapter 4)

From an incident when he was a younger man: caught up in a tribal battle, he was wounded and scarred, but escaped with his life.

From an incident described in an earlier chapter: Akua, deep in a psychic vision, killed Yaw’s sisters and injured him.

From an incident described in an earlier chapter: Yaw’s grandmother Abena, deep in a psychic vision, killed Yaw’s sisters and injured him.

From an incident when he was a younger man: fighting against being made a Christian, he was wounded and scarred, returning to his home village.

How does Akua’s mother die? (from Part 2, Chapter 2)

She drowns while being baptized by a Christian missionary determined to “save” her.

She dies while fighting in a rebellion.

She drowns while being baptized by an African priestess determined to wash her clean of her relationships with Christians.

She dies while giving birth.

What do you think is the connection between Ness’s situation in the field at the end of Part 1, Chapter 4 and her memories? (from Part 1, Chapter 4 )

Being in a situation where it is likely she is going to be freed (for breaking the rules) makes her imagine her first attempt at being freed.

Being in the field with other slaves reminds her of her happy life with fellow slave Sam.

Being in a situation where she is inescapably a slave (that is: picking cotton) makes her imagine her efforts to be free.

Being in the field with the other slaves makes her wish that Sam and her son were there with her.

Who writes the letter that H sends to Ethe? (from Part 2, Chapter 1)

The fellow miner whose life H saves.

The son of a fellow miner.

The wife of a fellow miner.

The boss of the mine where H works.

The image of Akua’s dream that concludes the Part 2, Chapter 2 (that is: of the firewoman with two children) can be seen as echoing which earlier aspect of the book? (from Part 2, Chapter 2)

Maame and her two daughters, Effia and Esi.

Anna and her two dead children, H and Jo.

Effia and her two children, Quey and Akosua.

Maame and her two sons, Quey and James.