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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Winter: Chapters 35-43.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is Pokuaa?
(a) The head hairdresser at a salon.
(b) The head docent at the museum.
(c) The head stewardess at the zoo.
(d) The head priest.

2. Belinda thinks to herself that school means what?
(a) Sitting up straight.
(b) Rules.
(c) Power.
(d) Boys.

3. When Aunty talks to a shop owner in the market, she introduces Belinda as her what?
(a) Niece.
(b) Daughter.
(c) Sister.
(d) Friend.

4. During Amma's portrait-sitting, she asks Helena to tell her a story about a time when Helena was what?
(a) In trouble.
(b) In love.
(c) Elated.
(d) Scared.

5. What action does one of the young Jamaican women on the bus take when Belinda mentions family?
(a) She calls the police.
(b) She grabs a fistful of Amma's hair.
(c) She leads her friend off of the bus.
(d) She yells at the bus driver to stop.

Short Answer Questions

1. What advice does Belinda give to Amma in Chapter 28?

2. From whose perspective is Chapter 9 narrated?

3. Whose story is being narrated when the reader learns of Mary's death?

4. From whose perspective is Chapter 10 narrated?

5. Belinda describes Mary as "a friend who has a very big" what "inside of her" (146)?

(see the answer key)

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