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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is heresy, according to the novel?
(a) For a woman to want to be away from her child.
(b) For a woman to marry as a teenager.
(c) For a woman to work outside of the home.
(d) For a woman to not have children.

3. In what other city in Germany will Sissie stop?
(a) Berlin.
(b) Hamburg.
(c) Hanover.
(d) Frankfurt.

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

5. What is the name of London's underground railway?
(a) The Tube.
(b) The Metro.
(c) The Subway.
(d) The T.

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

7. What does Marija notice about Sissie when she arrives back from a trip to the lakes and mountains?
(a) That she is wearing new clothing.
(b) That she smells nice.
(c) That she is tired.
(d) That she has been with another woman.

8. Why can Sissie not join Marija for lunch with her husband?
(a) She refuses to meet Marija's husband.
(b) She is leaving on a train.
(c) Her camping group has plans.
(d) Her friends will be in town.

9. How is Sissie known locally?
(a) The African Miss.
(b) The African Goddess.
(c) The Lady Sissie.
(d) Her Highness.

10. What does Sissie think about East and West Berlin?
(a) She likes West Berlin but dislikes East Berlin.
(b) She likes them both.
(c) She dislikes East Berglin but likes West Berlin.
(d) She dislikes them both.

11. Where do the self-exiled Ghanaian fishermen live?
(a) On the west coast of Africa.
(b) In the United States.
(c) On the east coast of Africa.
(d) In Morocco.

12. According to one of the novel's characters, who uses the road everyday?
(a) Schoolchildren.
(b) The President.
(c) The whites only.
(d) Sissie's family.

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

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

15. What does Marija do when Sissie shivers?
(a) She turns up the thermostat.
(b) She gives Sissie her jacket.
(c) She offers to bring her a sweater.
(d) She starts a fire.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Marija ask Sissie about her travel?

2. What does Sissie say about last-minute goodbyes?

3. What did every black man and woman in London claim to be?

4. By what alone can man not live?

5. Where is the Welsh made whom Sissie meets from?

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