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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 Marija have when she first meets Sissie?
(a) A bouquet of flowers.
(b) A designer purse.
(c) A bottle of gin.
(d) A baby pram.

2. What, according to the novel, do Sissie and the volunteers do most?
(a) Sing.
(b) Work.
(c) Dance.
(d) Eat.

3. What does the doctor tell Sissie about Ghanainan doctors?
(a) They are incompetent.
(b) They are well-trained.
(c) Their prices are extortionate.
(d) There are as many of them practicing in Germany.

4. Where does Sissie fly to?
(a) Johannesburg.
(b) Cotonou.
(c) Accra.
(d) Lagos.

5. Which of the following is true about rulers of the Third World?
(a) They are poor.
(b) They are benevolent.
(c) They are native.
(d) They are asleep to all things at all times.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the final destination of the airplane on which Sissie travels?

2. Where does Sissie take her plane from?

3. How old are the Bavarian peasants who work in the garden?

4. What does "das Schwartze Mädchen" mean?

5. To where did Marija's West Indian neighbor and his wife move?

(see the answer key)

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