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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What did July’s wife give up for the Smalls?
(a) Her hut.
(b) Her stove.
(c) Her car.
(d) Her extra bed.
2. Who is July’s favorite child?
(a) Victor.
(b) Gina.
(c) Ellen.
(d) Royce.
3. Who takes the bakke in Section 3?
(a) Bam and July.
(b) Maureen and Bam.
(c) Royce and July.
(d) July and another man.
4. What is Bam not aware of when he shows the gun to the villagers?
(a) They don’t know what it is.
(b) They already know it exists.
(c) They think it is a weapon against them.
(d) They don’t believe in guns.
5. Where did Maureen obtain the malaria drugs she and Bam take?
(a) She got them from Ellen.
(b) She looted them.
(c) She bought them in town.
(d) She got them from July.
Short Answer Questions
1. How does Maureen get the keys from July in Section 4?
2. What is a Primus?
3. What is happening politically, economically, and socially in the novel?
4. Where does the photograph of Maureen and Lydia end up later in Life?
5. What does Maureen do when she menstruates?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Maureen mean when she thinks that the balance between love and duty is maintained differently based on the lovers’ place in the economy?
2. Why is July so humiliated that Maureen doesn’t like him having the car keys?
3. Explain what Maureen discovers as she notices various gadgets being used around the village.
4. What does the son mean when he says “They can’t do anything. Nothing to us anymore” (pg 21).
5. Describe the bakke, and its use in the Smalls family, both previously and currently.
6. Why does July object to Maureen’s use of his wife’s cough syrup?
7. What does July learn to do in Section 4, and who teaches him?
8. What do Maureen and Bam argue about in Section 3?
9. In Section 2, what does July try to explain to his family about the Smalls?
10. Why do you think July is so insistent that the Smalls continue to allow him and his family to work for them?
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