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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Summer: Chapters 16-18 and Autumn: Chapters 19-24.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which Shakespeare play does Belinda discuss with Amma when they are home sick together?
(a) Romeo and Juliet.
(b) A Midsummer Night's Dream.
(c) Hamlet.
(d) Macbeth.

2. When Belinda becomes uncomfortable with Amma's story about a beating, she steers the conversation to what subject?
(a) History.
(b) Food.
(c) Art.
(d) Music.

3. What action does Belinda take in relation to seeing the coffin?
(a) She forces herself to look at it.
(b) She cannot look at it.
(c) She cannot look away from it.
(d) She can only look at it for brief moments at a time.

4. When Amma picks Belinda up from the airport in London, what preemptive comment does Amma make to Belinda?
(a) She says that she knows she smells bad but that she did not have time to shower.
(b) She says that Belinda cannot borrow any of her clothes.
(c) She says she knows her hair is messy and that she likes it.
(d) She says that she is aware that Belinda is probably hungry.

5. When Belinda first meets Helena, she mentally refers to her in connection with which physical attribute?
(a) Her hair.
(b) Her clothes.
(c) Her freckles.
(d) Her eyes.

Short Answer Questions

1. What sound does Belinda hear during the shopping trip that soothes her greatly?

2. Amma's room contains many different stacks composed of which kind of object?

3. What type of person is being beaten in Amma's story from her time in Ghana?

4. What action does one of the young Jamaican women on the bus take when Belinda mentions family?

5. Which act by the pallbearers inspires the mourners to respond with cheers?

(see the answer key)

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