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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 21-25.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the narrator’s mother see that caused her to put down her gun when the missionaries visited in Chapter 14: "Missionaries 1975"?
(a) Their hats.
(b) Their Bibles.
(c) Their crosses.
(d) Their coats.

2. What did the Fuller family eat at every meal after the narrator’s father accepted a job appointment in Chapter 24: "Devuli"?
(a) Lion.
(b) Elephant.
(c) Crocodile.
(d) Impala.

3. After Vanessa went away to boarding school in Chapter 21: "School,” Bobo received packets from the correspondence school located where?
(a) Salisbury.
(b) Cape Town.
(c) Mozambique.
(d) Cape Maclear.

4. What kind of infesting flies does the narrator describe in Chapter 9: "Burma Valley"?
(a) Horse flies.
(b) Putzi flies.
(c) Alkali flies.
(d) Fruit flies.

5. According to the narrator in Chapter 6: "Coming-Back Babies,” if the proper rituals are not performed when an African infant dies, what happens?
(a) The spirit keeps repeating the process of being reborn and dying young.
(b) The spirit will haunt the village.
(c) The spirit will haunt its parents.
(d) The spirit will never be reborn.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Olivia Jane Fuller die?

2. The narrator states in Chapter 10: "Chimunenga 1974" that the black Africans had been fighting a revolution against whites for how many years?

3. What did the narrator’s father allow the farm workers to do to the robbers in Chapter 19: "Violet"?

4. Over how many black Africans were moved to protected villages (compounds like prisoner of war camps), according to the narrator in "Chimurenga, 1979"?

5. What color was Mum’s police reserves uniform in Chapter 11: "War 1976"?

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