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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. To whom is Maureen introduced in Section 2?
(a) July's father.
(b) July’s children.
(c) July’s wife and mother.
(d) July's brother.

2. What surprises July’s wife about Maureen upon first meeting her?
(a) She’s not attractive.
(b) She’s not rich.
(c) She’s not a good mother.
(d) She’s not kind.

3. What does Maureen understand about the question she asks July in Section 5 that puts him ill at ease?
(a) July hates her.
(b) July doesn’t love her anymore.
(c) July did not comprehend the question.
(d) July will never forgive her.

4. What does July bring for Bam in Section 1?
(a) Water.
(b) Meat.
(c) A car.
(d) Wood.

5. What has Maureen learned to make appropriately by Section 4?
(a) Spinach.
(b) Meal.
(c) Porridge.
(d) Warthog.

6. What is July’s reaction to the medication his wife gave Maureen?
(a) He tells her to sell it.
(b) He tells her to take it.
(c) He tells her to throw it away.
(d) He tells her not to use it.

7. Where does July note that he was during his time away with the bakke?
(a) Back in town.
(b) At the chiefs.
(c) At the shops.
(d) At a farm.

8. What does July say he plans to tell people when they ask about the bakke?
(a) That he found it abandoned.
(b) That he stole it.
(c) That he borrowed it.
(d) That he got it from Bam in town.

9. Who helps the Smalls escape their home at the beginning of the novel?
(a) Ellen.
(b) Martha.
(c) Nora.
(d) July.

10. What does Maureen notice about the value of money to the villagers?
(a) It has significant meaning.
(b) They don’t know what money is.
(c) It has little meaning.
(d) It means more than life.

11. Why does July’s family have difficulty understanding why the Smalls wouldn't just fly overseas?
(a) They can’t imagine planes.
(b) They can’t see blacks rebelling.
(c) They know the whites have money.
(d) They can’t imagine guns to shoot planes.

12. Why do the blacks not kill the warthogs?
(a) They don’t know how.
(b) They don’t know they exist.
(c) They have no guns.
(d) They don’t believe in eating meat.

13. What does Maureen note in Section 3 that she doesn’t want to hear a spiel on?
(a) Whether or not their politics are justified.
(b) Whether or not their lives are in danger.
(c) Whether or not their old lives were a lie.
(d) Whether or not she is a good mother.

14. What does July claim in Section 5 that Maureen doesn’t like?
(a) Being away from home.
(b) Being dependent on him.
(c) That he keeps the car keys.
(d) That he isn’t waiting on her family.

15. In Seciton 4, what does July learn to do for himself?
(a) He learns to cook.
(b) He learns to drive.
(c) He learns to sew.
(d) He learns to sing.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does July’s son realize in Section 2, that the others do not?

2. What does Bam help July build in Section 3?

3. When were July’s children conceived?

4. Why does Bam know something has happened in Section 4?

5. What does Bam promise Victor, if he stays home from hunting?

(see the answer keys)

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