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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 do Bam and Maureen notice about the news broadcast in Section 6?
(a) It has bad reception and a bad announcer.
(b) It is now in German.
(c) It is now in Afrikaans.
(d) It is no longer in English.

2. What does Martha wonder about town?
(a) Whether the children went to school.
(b) What the house looked like.
(c) What the streets looked like.
(d) Whether Maureen told July what to do.

3. What does Nyiko say about the Small’s issue with the animals?
(a) Everyone owns the cats.
(b) No one in the village owns a cat.
(c) Puppies are owned by the chief.
(d) Chickens are popular to raise.

4. Why would Bam refuse to help the chief?
(a) He doesn’t want to help July’s people.
(b) He won’t help the chief fight against the liberation of his own people.
(c) He won’t help the chief kill people.
(d) He won’t get involved, at the risk of harming his family.

5. What does Bam hope Nyiko knows in Section 6?
(a) Who stole the food.
(b) Who owns the kittens.
(c) Who stole the bag.
(d) How to hand feed the kittens.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where is all of July’s money?

3. Where has Daniel gone in Section 10?

4. Where does Maureen go to find July in Section 10 after an object is discovered missing from their hut?

5. What are the chief’s final words to the Smalls in Section 8?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why do you think Maureen runs for the helicopter at the end of the novel, leaving her family behind?

2. What is missing when the Smalls arrive back at the hut in Section 9, and what does this likely mean for the family?

3. Explain why the chief wants to learn to use a gun.

4. In Section 9, what does Martha dream for the future, and how does this differ from July’s dreams?

5. Describe what Bam’s feeding of the children shows, in terms of his role in the household, compared to his previous life?

6. Explain how July sees his chief.

7. What is July’s mother’s primary objection to the white people?

8. Why is Maureen surprised when July mentions he wants things to go back?

9. Explain the function of the black man the Smalls meet before the chief.

10. After more conversation in Chapter 6, what does Martha reveal she was really concerned with?

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