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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Sissie want to ask somebody?
(a) Whether there is any hope for her and Marija.
(b) Whether she can take Marija back to Africa.
(c) Whether Sissie will ever be able to work in Germany.
(d) Why the entire world has had to pay so much, and is still paying, for some folks' unhappiness.

2. In what year did Rhodesia declare itself independent?
(a) 1957.
(b) 1985.
(c) 1944.
(d) 1965.

3. Who receives the heart transplant discussed in the novel?
(a) A dying African man.
(b) A dying white man.
(c) Sissie's friend.
(d) An infant..

4. Where is Upper Volta?
(a) Off the coast of India.
(b) In South Africa.
(c) On top of Ghana.
(d) Near Canada.

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

6. How is the road paved?
(a) With two narrow strips wide enough for a tire.
(b) Large enough for four lanes of traffic.
(c) Large enough for an oxcart.
(d) Large enough for two motor vehicles to travel abreast.

7. What types of letters does Sissie send to her mother?
(a) Homesick letters.
(b) Shamefully expurgated letters.
(c) Sissie does not write home.
(d) Long letters.

8. How many children does Marija plan to have?
(a) 2.
(b) 3.
(c) 1.
(d) 4.

9. What sort of foods does Sissie not like?
(a) Breakfast.
(b) Sweets.
(c) Vegetables.
(d) Soup.

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

11. What does Sissie say about Africa?
(a) She has family there.
(b) It is overpriced.
(c) It is like her country, only bigger.
(d) It is too hot.

12. What kind of cake does Marija make for Sissie?
(a) Angel food cake.
(b) German chocolate cake.
(c) Plum-cake.
(d) Ice cream cake.

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

14. What are the chairs in Marija's house like?
(a) Old-fashioned and expensive.
(b) Modernistic and made of artificial fiber.
(c) High-backed and fragile.
(d) Old and unreliable.

15. What does Sissie notice about the appearance of black people in London?
(a) They dress in traditional African garb.
(b) They are poorly clothed.
(c) They are dressed well.
(d) They are scantily clad.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of London's underground railway?

2. What does Marija notice about Sissie when she arrives back from a trip to the lakes and mountains?

3. From where specifically do the Presidents of the North govern?

4. What does Sissie refer to as a spy system?

5. What is Marija like when she picks up Sissie?

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