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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 1: Into a Bad Dream.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. With whom does the airplane hostess assume that Sissie is travelling?
(a) Two Nigerian men.
(b) An Indian man.
(c) Another African girl.
(d) A white man.

2. What does the narrative claim about a 'moderate' black person?
(a) He is very handsome.
(b) He can only regurgitate what his master told him.
(c) He is better educated.
(d) He is obsessed with wealth.

3. What does Sissie say about power?
(a) It is not real.
(b) It is all anything is about.
(c) She wants it all for herself.
(d) It is overrated.

4. What is Sammy?
(a) Sissie's boyfriend.
(b) An African man whom Sissie meets in Europe.
(c) The president of France.
(d) The prime minister of Germany.

5. What does Sissie say about the train station?
(a) That it is strangely not crowded.
(b) That it is overpriced.
(c) That it smells bad.
(d) There are more shops therein than anywhere else in her country.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the final destination of the airplane on which Sissie travels?

2. What does the novel liken to arguing with another black person?

3. What does Sissie think that Sammy's voice sounds like?

4. What is Sissie's reaction to white people?

5. What does the "academic-pseudo-intellectual version" (6) talk about?

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