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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 2: The Plums (part 1).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where do Marija and Sissie walk?
(a) Around a track.
(b) A path through the park.
(c) In a ravine.
(d) Up a mountain.

2. According to the novel, what are the middle-class European kids unused to?
(a) Feeling useful.
(b) Social activities.
(c) Manual labor.
(d) Eating lavishly.

3. Where does Sissie take her plane from?
(a) Rwanda.
(b) Nigeria.
(c) Accra.
(d) Kenya.

4. Which of the following is performed by Sissie and her fellow volunteers?
(a) Cover up the bases and stems of pine seedlings.
(b) Build schoolhouses.
(c) Donate blood.
(d) Rake leaves.

5. At what time do Sissie and the other campers refer from the pine nursery?
(a) Between two and three o'clock.
(b) Between one and two o'clock.
(c) Between seven and eight o'clock.
(d) Between nine and ten o'clock.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does "Sissie" mean?

2. Which is true about the promises made by Sissie and Marija?

3. What does the "academic-pseudo-intellectual version" (6) talk about?

4. What does Sammy try to get Sissie to realize?

5. According to the novel, what is necessary to be heaven-worthy individual?

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