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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 does Sammy try to get Sissie to realize?
(a) That he is very wealthy.
(b) That she needs to return to African as soon as possible.
(c) That she is lucky to be in Europe.
(d) That she is the most beautiful woman he has ever seen.

2. With whom does the airplane hostess assume that Sissie is travelling?
(a) Another African girl.
(b) Two Nigerian men.
(c) An Indian man.
(d) A white man.

3. According to the novel, what do Africans and Indians share?
(a) A common language.
(b) A common cuisine.
(c) A common religion.
(d) A common heritage.

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

5. Who is "The-Bringer-of-Goodies-After-Lights-Out"?
(a) Sissie.
(b) Gustavus.
(c) Adolph.
(d) Gertie.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How old are the Bavarian peasants who work in the garden?

3. To where did Marija's West Indian neighbor and his wife move?

4. At what time do Sissie and the other campers refer from the pine nursery?

5. What does the "academic-pseudo-intellectual version" (6) talk about?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who orders breakfast for Sissie in Frankfurt?

2. How is God described in Part 2: "The Plums"?

3. What is the name of the African whom Sissie meets in Europe?

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

5. What do Sissie and her fellow campers do for work?

6. Where does Marija tell Sissie that her Indian neighbors went?

7. To what does Sissie liken aeroplanes in Part 2: "The Plums?"

8. Where does Marija live?

9. What was Sissie's Christian name?

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

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