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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 10, Pages 143-156.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Maureen understand must be balanced in black affairs?
(a) Desire and duty.
(b) Duty and love.
(c) Love and money.
(d) Money and desire.

2. What happened to Nora’s husband?
(a) He left her.
(b) He died.
(c) He was hired at the mines.
(d) He disappeared.

3. What does Maureen run for at the end of the book?
(a) To get to the helicopter.
(b) Her family.
(c) July.
(d) To escape the helicopter.

4. Where did Maureen obtain the malaria drugs she and Bam take?
(a) She got them from July.
(b) She looted them.
(c) She bought them in town.
(d) She got them from Ellen.

5. What is Bam having trouble believing about the chief in Section 8?
(a) That the chief would kill his own people to save himself.
(b) That the chief would kill whites to save blacks.
(c) That the chief would kill his own people to save whites.
(d) That the chief would kill his own people to save his power.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does July claim in Section 5 that Maureen doesn’t like?

2. Why does Maureen find her husband attractive during dinner an evening in Section 7?

3. Where does July note that he was during his time away with the bakke?

4. What can the Small not find once they get home from meeting the village chief?

5. What does Maureen learn in Section 7 that they must to do to stay in the village?

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