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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 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.

2. What does the novel liken to arguing with another black person?
(a) A game of solitaire.
(b) Russian roullete
(c) A chess game.
(d) Cribbage.

3. With whom does the airplane hostess assume that Sissie is travelling?
(a) Two Nigerian men.
(b) A white man.
(c) An Indian man.
(d) Another African girl.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How many people are in attendance at the dinner in the opening chapter of the novel?

3. What does "das Schwartze Mädchen" mean?

4. What does the narrative claim about a 'moderate' black person?

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

(see the answer key)

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