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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. On account of what do able-bodied fishermen disappear?
(a) Bird flu.
(b) Hay Fever.
(c) Tuberculosis.
(d) Cholera.

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

3. What do the wives of the ministers and commissioners drive?
(a) BMWs.
(b) Mercedes-Benzes.
(c) Volkswagens.
(d) Jaguars.

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

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

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

7. How is Kunle killed?
(a) By his car.
(b) In an earthquake.
(c) By his dog.
(d) From a gunshot wound.

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

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

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

11. What do natives realize about blacks in Bavaria?
(a) They are good looking.
(b) They are poor.
(c) They are fluent in German.
(d) They are very sociable.

12. What can Sissie not understand?
(a) Why Africans leave warm climates to live in cold ones.
(b) Why she needs to learn German.
(c) Why England has the best schools.
(d) Why English is so difficult.

13. Why does Sissie's description of Nigeria shock Marija?
(a) It sounds unpatriotic.
(b) Sissie makes Nigeria sound beautiful.
(c) Marija suspects that Sissie is lying.
(d) Sissie describes Nigeria in rhyming verse.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. At what age was Sissie enrolled in foreign education?

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

3. Into what are beautiful black bodies turned?

4. In what other city in Germany will Sissie stop?

5. What does Marija ask Sissie?

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