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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are Bornfree and Messenger carrying when they pass Darling on her way to church in "Darling on the Mountain"?
(a) Guns.
(b) Posters.
(c) Machetes.
(d) Flowers.

2. What is printed on the T-shirt that the woman wears who asks if she can photograph the children in "Hitting Budapest"?
(a) "Be the Change."
(b) "Save Darfur."
(c) "Nike."
(d) "One Voice."

3. What game was Darling playing when she comes in to find her father at home in "Shhhh"?
(a) Find bin Laden.
(b) Hopscotch.
(c) Country-game.
(d) Ally-over.

4. How does Darling say she feels about going to church in "Darling on the Mountain"?
(a) She does not really like it.
(b) She looks forward to it every week.
(c) She loves it.
(d) She misses it.

5. What does Darling say Chipo's baby will be in "Hitting Budapest"?
(a) A fish.
(b) A white baby.
(c) A boy.
(d) A girl.

6. The children place posters on every shack in the village except for whose in "Real Change"?
(a) MotherLove's.
(b) Chipo's.
(c) Nomoreproblems's.
(d) Mother of Bones's.

7. What is printed on the T-shirt that Godknows wears in "Blak Power"?
(a) "Nike."
(b) "Don't Be Mean, Go Green."
(c) "F.R.I.E.N.D.S."
(d) "Save Darfur."

8. "How They Appeared" begins with the line, "They did not come to Paradise. Coming would mean that they were" what?
(a) "Alive."
(b) "Wanters."
(c) "Hopeful."
(d) "Choosers."

9. What is printed on the floor mat to the white people's house in "Blak Power"?
(a) "Welcome."
(b) "Africa."
(c) "Wipe Your Paws."
(d) "The Robertsons."

10. When the children call out for the man that MaS'banda sent them to find in Shanghai, they learn that he has gone where in "Country-Game"?
(a) To the United States.
(b) To South Africa.
(c) To Botswana.
(d) To Zambia.

11. What color dress does Darling wear to church in "Darling on the Mountain"?
(a) White.
(b) Pink.
(c) Yellow.
(d) Blue.

12. What happens to the urine in the cup in "We Need New Names"?
(a) Darling drinks it.
(b) Sbho drinks it.
(c) Chipo drinks it.
(d) They use it as sterilizer.

13. Who bursts into tears as the marchers come in and the children are harvesting guavas in "Blak Power"?
(a) Sbho.
(b) Stina.
(c) Fraction.
(d) Chipo.

14. What does Darling describe Chipo's fortune cookie saying in "Country-Game"?
(a) "Your talents will be recognized and suitably rewarded."
(b) "If I bring forth what is inside me, what I bring forth will save me."
(c) "A pair of new shoes will do you a world of good."
(d) "Your future will be happy and productive."

15. On what day of the month do the posters remind people to vote in "Real Change"?
(a) The 12th.
(b) The 28th.
(c) The 20th.
(d) The 16th.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where has Darling's mother gone in "Darling on the Mountain"?

2. Why does Darling say that people believe she is possessed in "Darling on the Mountain"?

3. Who does Forgiveness play from the show "ER" in "We Need New Names"?

4. What color uniforms do the Chinese men wear in Shanghai in "Country-Game"?

5. What does Darling describe her own fortune cookie saying in "Country-Game"?

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