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

2. How is the road paved?
(a) With two narrow strips wide enough for a tire.
(b) Large enough for an oxcart.
(c) Large enough for four lanes of traffic.
(d) Large enough for two motor vehicles to travel abreast.

3. What does Sissie speculate is God's gift to man?
(a) Taking pleasure in hurting.
(b) Having multiple wives.
(c) Singing loudly.
(d) Watching football.

4. What does the "academic-pseudo-intellectual version" (6) talk about?
(a) The Gross National Product.
(b) Global warming.
(c) The Gini Coefficient.
(d) The Marginal Cost Curve.

5. What kind of cake does Marija make for Sissie?
(a) German chocolate cake.
(b) Angel food cake.
(c) Plum-cake.
(d) Ice cream cake.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does power decide, according to the novel?

2. What is Marija's last name?

3. What kind of vegetable is familiar to Sissie?

4. According to the novel, what are the middle-class European kids unused to?

5. What is Sissie's Christian name?

(see the answer key)

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