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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the novel say about African names?
(a) They are heathen.
(b) They are confusing.
(c) They are foolish.
(d) They are beautiful.

2. Which of the following is NOT a project undertaken by Sissie's missionary group?
(a) Building a school block.
(b) Repairing a road.
(c) Digging a well.
(d) Building a bird house.

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

4. What does Sissie think that Sammy's voice sounds like?
(a) High and feminine.
(b) Soft and meek.
(c) Harsh and cruel.
(d) Wet with longing.

5. What does "Sissie" mean?
(a) Sally.
(b) Sister.
(c) Sissina.
(d) Sarah.

6. How does Marija soften her plums?
(a) In hot water.
(b) In a polythene bag.
(c) In a storage bin.
(d) In the oven.

7. Which of the following does Sissie say about the Indian doctor?
(a) He is too old to work anymore.
(b) He is in a social order that froze a thousand years ago.
(c) He is miserly.
(d) He is not equipped to practice.

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

9. What does the "academic-pseudo-intellectual version" (6) talk about?
(a) The Marginal Cost Curve.
(b) The Gini Coefficient.
(c) The Gross National Product.
(d) Global warming.

10. What other foods are from the Mediterranean that Sissie encounters in Europe?
(a) Apricots and pears.
(b) Rice and beans.
(c) Steak and Venison.
(d) Potatoes and Onions.

11. Which of the following does Sissie say about God?
(a) He wears glasses.
(b) He is all-wise.
(c) He has a flowing white beard.
(d) He is black.

12. According to Sissie, what is the ethnicity of angels?
(a) Italian.
(b) English.
(c) Canadian.
(d) African.

13. According to the novel, what is necessary to be heaven-worthy individual?
(a) A dog.
(b) A loyal spouse.
(c) Wealth.
(d) A Christian name.

14. What does Sammy try to get Sissie to realize?
(a) That she is lucky to be in Europe.
(b) That he is very wealthy.
(c) That she needs to return to African as soon as possible.
(d) That she is the most beautiful woman he has ever seen.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name designation for being born on a Thursday?

2. Which of the following does Sissie say about Marija?

3. What does Marija say about Indians?

4. Why can not all Europeans go abroad?

5. At what time do Sissie and the other campers refer from the pine nursery?

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