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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 2: The Plums (part 1).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to the novel, what are the middle-class European kids unused to?
(a) Social activities.
(b) Eating lavishly.
(c) Manual labor.
(d) Feeling useful.

2. What is the name designation for being born on a Thursday?
(a) Mensah.
(b) Yaw.
(c) Adu.
(d) Hen.

3. Which of the following does Sissie say about Marija?
(a) She is a genius.
(b) She is pretentious.
(c) She is too warm for Bavaria.
(d) She is ugly.

4. Who does Marija think is Indian?
(a) A Bavarian volunteer.
(b) The camp receptionist.
(c) Sissie.
(d) Sissie's boyfriend.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is called Little Adolph?

2. What does Sammy try to get Sissie to realize?

3. What is Marija's husband's name?

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

5. What does the novel say about African names?

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