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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Front Matter and Chapters 1 through 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the narrator gloss the term “ambuyas” in the memoir?
(a) Uncles.
(b) Aunts.
(c) Sisters.
(d) Brothers.

2. What does Gogo remark Zimbabwe had previously been called?
(a) Senegambia.
(b) Nyasaland.
(c) Rhodesia.
(d) Lemuria.

3. Which of the following is the third of Gogo’s sons?
(a) Oweni.
(b) Sam.
(c) Widzi.
(d) Henzi.

4. How does the narrator gloss the term “sisis” in the memoir?
(a) Brothers.
(b) Aunts.
(c) Sisters.
(d) Uncles.

5. Chapter 2 opens with which of the following?
(a) “I climb the steep stairs.”
(b) “Deep in the African wilderness, rolling hills open onto a barren maize field.”
(c) “A surge of excitement courses through me.”
(d) “The building towered up taller than I had ever seen before.”

Short Answer Questions

1. From which of the following does the comment come that precedes Chapter 1?

2. How does the memoir gloss “nherera”?

3. How does the memoir gloss “Mwana Wevhu”?

4. Which of the following immediately precedes Chapter 2?

5. How does the memoir gloss “Aaaa, tiripo kana makadiyiwo”?

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