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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 36-40.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What word from Chapter 2: "Getting There & Zambia 1987" means to designate a school, park, etc. for use by all races or groups?
(a) Propagate.
(b) Associate.
(c) Integrate.
(d) Migrate.

2. Vanessa announced a plan for the family to take a picnic where in Chapter 31: "Moving On"?
(a) In the woods.
(b) At the dam.
(c) On the coast.
(d) In the mountains.

3. How old was Bobo when Vanessa went away to boarding school in Chapter 21: "School"?
(a) 7.
(b) 12.
(c) 4.
(d) 1.

4. Vanessa told her mother that she and Bobo would do what when they visited her in the hospital in Chapter 28: "Charlie Chilvers"?
(a) Feed the dogs.
(b) Fix a nursery for the baby.
(c) Free the rabbits.
(d) Buy her a new puppy.

5. What did the narrator’s father allow the farm workers to do to the robbers in Chapter 19: "Violet"?
(a) Drown them.
(b) Yell at them.
(c) Shoot them.
(d) Beat them.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Bobo and her sister discover on the farm in Chapter 18: "Chimurenga, 1979"?

2. At dinner the day after the Prime Minister elections in 1980, how many of the 200 boarders were left at Bobo’s school?

3. What was the name of the baby Vanessa gave birth to in Chapter 40: "Now"?

4. Where did the narrator’s family begin spending weekends in Chapter 34: "The Goat Shed"?

5. How many rescued dogs does the narrator describe her mother having surrounded herself with in Chapter 1: "Rhodesia, 1975"?

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