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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 1: Into a Bad Dream.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Sammy?
(a) Sissie's boyfriend.
(b) The prime minister of Germany.
(c) The president of France.
(d) An African man whom Sissie meets in Europe.

2. What does Sissie say about power?
(a) She wants it all for herself.
(b) It is overrated.
(c) It is all anything is about.
(d) It is not real.

3. What does Sammy try to get Sissie to realize?
(a) That she needs to return to African as soon as possible.
(b) That she is lucky to be in Europe.
(c) That she is the most beautiful woman he has ever seen.
(d) That he is very wealthy.

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

5. Who shows a lot of interest in Sissie?
(a) The Apollo 11 astronauts.
(b) The Beatles.
(c) Her parents.
(d) An embassy in Europe.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Sissie say about the train station?

2. With whom does the airplane hostess assume that Sissie is travelling?

3. What does the novel liken to arguing with another black person?

4. What is Sissie's reaction to white people?

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

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