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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 Sissie's reaction to white people?
(a) She thinks they are intimidating.
(b) It makes her want to vomit.
(c) She thinks they look like aliens.
(d) She finds them attractive.

2. Who orders breakfast for Sissie's group?
(a) Sissie's boyfriend.
(b) Sissie's mother.
(c) A functionary.
(d) The flight attendant.

3. What is the final destination of the airplane on which Sissie travels?
(a) Morocco.
(b) Kenya.
(c) Frankfurt.
(d) Benin.

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

5. What does "das Schwartze Mädchen" mean?
(a) The Indian girl.
(b) The lovely maiden.
(c) The black girl.
(d) The ugly maiden.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Where does Sissie fly to?

4. What does Sissie say about power?

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

(see the answer key)

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