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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 Maureen and Bam listen to instead of their regular radio broadcast in Section 7?
(a) American news.
(b) African news.
(c) Cuban news.
(d) Military radio.

2. What is Bam’s reasoning for not owning a pistol?
(a) He doesn’t shoot birds.
(b) He doesn’t shoot people.
(c) He doesn’t shoot guns.
(d) He doesn’t shoot animals.

3. What does Maureen think the blacks would say about July’s actions in saving the Smalls?
(a) That he is helping the revolution.
(b) That he was dangerous in trying to help.
(c) That he is a sellout to his people.
(d) That he was right to save them.

4. At the end of the book, what does Maureen hear that is different than usual sounds?
(a) Laughter from the town women.
(b) A group of English people.
(c) A helicopter.
(d) A riverboat.

5. What does Bam ask about Maureen’s actions with the small animals born in their hut?
(a) Why she didn’t give them away.
(b) Why she did it.
(c) Why she didn’t have one of the villagers do it.
(d) Why she didn’t shoot them.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Maureen suggest in Section 9 that they need to do to save July?

2. By the end of Section 7, what does Maureen realize about July and his feelings for her?

3. What does July refuse to do to get Maureen to leave in Section 10?

4. How does July feel about Maureen working with the women of his village in Section 7?

5. What phrases does Bam hear on the radio that attracts his attention in Section 8?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the author mean when she says Victor is angry “with a white man’s anger, too big for him”?

2. What is July’s feeling about Maureen working in the fields, and why?

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

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

5. Explain Maureen’s feelings about her life, prior to the riots, as reflected upon in Section 9.

6. Why does Maureen give a final belittling speech to July, and what does she say?

7. Explain how Bam now feels about his wife by Section 7.

8. Why do you think Gina and the kids are so readily accepted, but Bam and Maureen are not?

9. Describe Maureen’s point about the smell of her family.

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

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