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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 4: A Love Letter.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the anxious Afro-American student ask a visiting African professor?
(a) Whether Egypt is in Africa.
(b) Whether he knows Sissie.
(c) Whether white people are all enemies.
(d) Whether he has been to Europe.

2. What is heresy, according to the novel?
(a) For a woman to want to be away from her child.
(b) For a woman to not have children.
(c) For a woman to work outside of the home.
(d) For a woman to marry as a teenager.

3. According to Sissie, what is necessary to know that someone is telling the truth?
(a) Making them laugh.
(b) Looking into their eyes.
(c) Threatening them.
(d) Using a polygraph test.

4. What is Marija's last name?
(a) Heinrich.
(b) Gustavus.
(c) Somner.
(d) Mitchell.

5. What does Sissie say about the language of love?
(a) It is English.
(b) It is French.
(c) It does not have to be audible.
(d) It is Spanish.

Short Answer Questions

1. On account of what do able-bodied fishermen disappear?

2. What does Marija tell Sissie that she wishes?

3. Into what are beautiful black bodies turned?

4. Who does Marija think is Indian?

5. Which of the following is true about rulers of the Third World?

(see the answer key)

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