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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 has the government told the chief will happen with the Cubans and Russians?
(a) They will help support him.
(b) They will take his land.
(c) They will kill his family.
(d) They will hurt him.

2. Why does Maureen find her husband attractive during dinner an evening in Section 7?
(a) He is kind to the kids.
(b) He defends her.
(c) He is attractive.
(d) He pays attention to her.

3. What does Maureen run for at the end of the book?
(a) To get to the helicopter.
(b) To escape the helicopter.
(c) Her family.
(d) July.

4. What does Maureen understand in Section 10 during their argument, although July speaks in his own language?
(a) That he loves the children.
(b) That he resents her.
(c) That he wants her to leave.
(d) That he loves her.

5. What is a gumbagumba?
(a) Travelling entertainment.
(b) An animal.
(c) A type of car.
(d) A type of gun.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Bam’s reasoning for not owning a pistol?

2. What does Maureen realize she doesn’t have to worry about anymore in Section 9?

3. What is born within Maureen’s hut?

4. What do Maureen and Bam listen to instead of their regular radio broadcast in Section 7?

5. What does the chief want Bam to do to help him?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Explain why Maureen drowns the kittens and what this implies about her?

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

6. What does Bam try to explain about why the chief shouldn’t kill his own people?

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

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

9. What does Bam mean when he says July is “shrewdy”?

10. Why is Martha resentful toward Maureen when she asks where July has gone in Section 10?

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