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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Sissie speculate is God's gift to man?
(a) Taking pleasure in hurting.
(b) Singing loudly.
(c) Having multiple wives.
(d) Watching football.

2. What does Sissie notice about Marija's fingers on her breast?
(a) They are large.
(b) They are cold.
(c) They are rough..
(d) They are small.

3. Into what are beautiful black bodies turned?
(a) Elephant-grey corpses.
(b) Ugly white bodies.
(c) Noticeably skinny bodies.
(d) Ugly black bodies.

4. What do honorary doctorate degrees come with?
(a) German chocolate cake.
(b) Afternoon teas.
(c) Guaranteed fame.
(d) A high price tag.

5. What is the result of "dying in the hands of a brother who made it" (59)?
(a) Fame.
(b) Ecstasy.
(c) Shame.
(d) Irony.

6. What do Marija's neighbours do?
(a) Sing Christmas carols.
(b) Send a dog into their garden.
(c) Spy on Marija and Sissie.
(d) Bring over a cake.

7. What color is Marija's hair?
(a) Black.
(b) Brown.
(c) Red.
(d) Blonde.

8. Why does the Christian doctor say that the hearts of black people are easy to come by?
(a) Bantus are constantly perpetrating violence against one another.
(b) Whites are constantly killing blacks.
(c) Blacks serve as organ donors.
(d) Whites command blacks to donate their organs.

9. What does Sissie think that Marija's tears signify?
(a) Loneliness.
(b) Secret knowledge.
(c) Fear.
(d) Depression.

10. What beverage does Marija offer Sissie?
(a) Tea.
(b) Kombucha.
(c) Orange soda.
(d) Coffee.

11. What happens to Kunle's heart?
(a) It is donated to a Christian doctor.
(b) It is donated to an African doctor.
(c) It is engulfed in flames.
(d) It is donated to a lab in America.

12. Who writes letters to Kunle?
(a) His mother.
(b) Kunle's wife.
(c) Sissie.
(d) Kunle's sister.

13. Why does a Scottish woman claim kinship with Sissie?
(a) They both love bagpipe music.
(b) They both had chiefs that fought one another when an invader marched in.
(c) They both have the best world leaders.
(d) They both have savoury cuisine.

14. Who thinks that the Germans are oppressed?
(a) Marija.
(b) The Scottish woman.
(c) Sissie.
(d) The German-born American professor of Humanities.

15. According to the novel, what is not a child's game?
(a) Growing up.
(b) Being a woman.
(c) Learning a foreign language.
(d) Filing taxes.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the novel, what time do day's activities end?

2. According to the narrative in Section 2, what do the ministers and commissioners drink?

3. Why do yams in the African marketplace rot?

4. On account of what do able-bodied fishermen disappear?

5. Why is Marija happy that Little Adolph is a boy?

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