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

2. What does Maureen say about July being afraid in Section 7?
(a) Bam won’t take back the vehicle.
(b) Bam is going to take back the vehicle.
(c) Bam will not drive the car again.
(d) Bam will take the keys when he fixes the car.

3. In Section 10, who do the Smalls first think of in the theft of an object from their hut?
(a) Victor.
(b) Royce.
(c) Gina.
(d) July.

4. In Section 8, what does Victor want his dad to buy?
(a) A car radiator.
(b) A bike.
(c) A car.
(d) A train.

5. Who cooked for the Smalls in Section 6?
(a) Nora.
(b) Ellen.
(c) July.
(d) Maureen.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where has Martha seen a photograph?

2. What does July want to ask Maureen about in private in Section 7?

3. What does Bam do to rectify the situation after a villager accuses the children of something in Section 6?

4. Who drives the car with the family in Section 7?

5. What does Maureen think July was really talking about when he criticized the chief?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Explain how Maureen feels about her husband after living in the village for a time.

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

6. What does Martha wonder most about the white woman, when she lived in town with July?

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

8. Explain why Maureen thinks they need to leave in Section 9.

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

10. Describe the scene where Bam lays face first in the bed. What happened, and what does this signify?

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