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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why do yams in the African marketplace rot?
(a) African religions prohibits eating lambs.
(b) For lack of transportation.
(c) So many people have food allergies.
(d) People refuse to buy food from black people.

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

3. What sorts of professions do the volunteers become?
(a) Politicians.
(b) Artists.
(c) Writers.
(d) Diplomats, professors, and local experts.

4. What does Sissie say about her and Marija's love?
(a) It is doomed.
(b) It is going to anger Sissie's parents.
(c) It is fate.
(d) It is impossible because of Sissie's boyfriend.

5. What does Sissie's relationship with Marija almost make her forget?
(a) That she is a woman.
(b) That she is poor.
(c) That Marija is poor.
(d) That she must go home.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Sissie tell Marija is not sound?

2. What, according to the novel, do Sissie and the volunteers do most?

3. According to Sissie, what is necessary to know that someone is telling the truth?

4. What is heresy, according to the novel?

5. Where does SIssie think that Ghana is?

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