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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3 (pages 131-163).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What characteristics does "Z" demonstrate?
(a) Interested in anthropology.
(b) Vanity.
(c) Loneliness.
(d) All of these.

2. Who is building a village from the ground up?
(a) "Z".
(b) The narrator.
(c) Martin Wade.
(d) Nelson Denoon.

3. Where does "Z" offer to take the narrator when she first meets him?
(a) He offers to drive her to a party.
(b) He offers to drive her home from the library.
(c) He offers to drive her home from the grocery store.
(d) He offers to take her home from a party.

4. What physical change in the narrator causes her to worry about physical stress and poor nutrition while in the bush?
(a) She begins losing her hair.
(b) All of these.
(c) Her steady loss of weight.
(d) The cessation of her menstrual cycle.

5. How does the narrator travel the first leg of her trip to Tsau?
(a) On a flatbed truck.
(b) On a plane.
(c) In a car.
(d) On a bus.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do we learn about Nelson Denoon from the narrators flash-forward as she enters Tsau?

2. How does the narrator feel about Nelson Doonen's holier-than-thou political attitudes?

3. Who does the narrator call "my boys" during her trip to Tsau?

4. What does the narrator do to set herself apart when she meets Nelson Denoon?

5. Who says "while capitalism is destroying Africa and its village's socialism is not the answer"?

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