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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What decision does Jende make for Neni in Chapter 26?
(a) Jende will welcome another wife to the family.
(b) She will move back to Africa.
(c) She will get a second job.
(d) She will not return to school or work.

2. What is Leah's plan after Lehman's collapse?
(a) Take time off and visit her sister in Florida.
(b) Stay with Clark and be his assistant.
(c) Move to California.
(d) Go back to college.

3. Where does Neni go in Chapter 41?
(a) To Betty's house.
(b) To see her professor.
(c) To church to see Natasha.
(d) Cindy's apartment.

4. What does Cindy give Neni to keep her quiet?
(a) Jende his job back.
(b) A blank check.
(c) Access to her home in the Hamptons whenever the Jongas want.
(d) $10,000 in cash.

5. What dessert does Neni make for Christmas?
(a) Pancakes.
(b) Peppermints.
(c) Pudding.
(d) Chin-Chin and cake.

6. Who calls Neni in Chapter 45?
(a) Mighty.
(b) Vince.
(c) Clark.
(d) Cindy.

7. What is one reason Jende gives for not supporting Neni's decision to go to church?
(a) He does not want the children raised Catholic.
(b) He thinks the Church cannot be trusted.
(c) Church is for white people.
(d) She did not go to church in Africa.

8. What is Neni thinking about at the beginning of Chapter 43?
(a) Africa.
(b) The mall.
(c) Church.
(d) The grocery store.

9. What item of clothing worried Jende in Chapter 28?
(a) Clark's tie.
(b) Clark's jacket.
(c) Clark's shoes.
(d) Clark's belt.

10. What does Neni use to blackmail Cindy?
(a) A picture of Cindy drunk and passed out in the Hamptons.
(b) A recording her Cindy and Clark fighting.
(c) A picture of Clark with a prostitute.
(d) Jende's immigration status, proving that they hired an illegal immigrant for so long.

11. Who is Amos?
(a) The assistant pastor at Neni's church.
(b) Neni's doctor.
(c) Neni's best friend.
(d) Neni's new professor.

12. When does Lehman Brother's collapse?
(a) May.
(b) June.
(c) September.
(d) October.

13. What memory does Jende have in Chapter 37?
(a) The first time he met Neni.
(b) This first Christmas in America and how sad it was.
(c) The time he got the job with the Edwards.
(d) His last Christmas in Limbe.

14. What do the Jongas eat on Christmas morning?
(a) Pancakes.
(b) Curry.
(c) Plantains and Beans.
(d) Puff Puff.

15. What does Jende write in place of the Chelsea in the notes he takes for Cindy?
(a) Times Square.
(b) The gym.
(c) Harlem.
(d) Court.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Winston think Jende should do in response to Cindy's request?

2. How does Jende try to make it up to Neni in Chapter 44?

3. When Jende questions Cindy's request, what does she tell him to consider?

4. Why does Jende bring Clark to the same hotel over and over?

5. What does Jende give Neni to make her happy about moving back to Africa?

(see the answer keys)

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