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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 2: The Plums (part 1).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does power decide, according to the novel?
(a) Who will win the presidential election.
(b) Who is to live and die.
(c) When Sissie will return to Africa.
(d) Whether Sissie will marry her boyfriend.

2. What is Marija's husband's name?
(a) Franz.
(b) Henri.
(c) Adolph.
(d) Gustavus.

3. Who takes Sissie to visit her teacher training college?
(a) Jayn.
(b) Gertie.
(c) Sammy.
(d) Marilyn.

4. What do plums and Sissie NOT have in common?
(a) Wisdom.
(b) Feeling free.
(c) Youthfulness.
(d) Being a rare article.

5. What does Sissie say about the train station?
(a) That it smells bad.
(b) That it is strangely not crowded.
(c) That it is overpriced.
(d) There are more shops therein than anywhere else in her country.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the novel, what do Africans and Indians share?

2. What does the doctor tell Sissie about Ghanainan doctors?

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

4. What are Sissie's two favorite fruits?

5. What other foods are from the Mediterranean that Sissie encounters in Europe?

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