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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When do these Presidents visit Africa?
(a) For the holidays.
(b) At the first of each month.
(c) Once, at the beginning of their presidency.
(d) On weekends.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

11. What does Marija ask Sissie?
(a) If she has ever been attracted to men.
(b) When she is returning to Africa.
(c) When her birthday is.
(d) What her favorite food is.

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

13. What does Marija tell Sissie is in Munich?
(a) Music and museums.
(b) Dancing and nightclubs.
(c) Wildlife and hiking.
(d) Shopping and food.

14. What does Marija pray for?
(a) That Little Adolph becomes Chancellor.
(b) That Little Adolph goes to London.
(c) That Little Adolph visits Africa.
(d) That Little Adolph become wealthy.

15. What did the doctor say during Little Adolph's birth?
(a) That he had a twin that did not survive.
(b) That Marija cannot have more children.
(c) That he is underweight.
(d) That he has a birth defect.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the result of "dying in the hands of a brother who made it" (59)?

2. What does Sissie think that Marija's tears signify?

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

4. Who writes letters to Kunle?

5. What do natives realize about blacks in Bavaria?

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