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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the second course of the meal described in Part 2?
(a) Duck.
(b) Turducken.
(c) Steak tips.
(d) Chicken moriturus.

2. What does Sissie notice is like the color of pig parts?
(a) The crowd of people going and going.
(b) The European sky.
(c) Her hostess.
(d) The sidewalks.

3. Where do Marija and Sissie walk?
(a) Up a mountain.
(b) In a ravine.
(c) Around a track.
(d) A path through the park.

4. What does Sissie say about the train station?
(a) There are more shops therein than anywhere else in her country.
(b) That it smells bad.
(c) That it is strangely not crowded.
(d) That it is overpriced.

5. What does the "academic-pseudo-intellectual version" (6) talk about?
(a) The Gross National Product.
(b) The Gini Coefficient.
(c) Global warming.
(d) The Marginal Cost Curve.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many people are in attendance at the dinner in the opening chapter of the novel?

2. According to the novel, what do Africans and Indians share?

3. Which of the following is performed by Sissie and her fellow volunteers?

4. According to the novel, what are the middle-class European kids unused to?

5. Who does Marija think is Indian?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Sissie describe the color of the individuals in Germany?

2. What is the most dangerous type of black person, according to Part 1: "Into a Bad Dream?"

3. What is the African name featured in Part 2: "The Plums?"

4. Why do the Bavarian women with whom Sissie works wear black?

5. What does Sissie claim to expect at age 30?

6. Where does Sissie volunteer in Bavaria?

7. What part of Africa does Sissie liken to the "bowels of the earth" (11)?

8. Where does Marija live?

9. How does the woman in the train station in Frankfurt refer to her Sissie when speaking to her daughter?

10. From what part of Africa did the plane which Sissie takes to Europe originate?

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