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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 Sissie's reaction to white people?
(a) She thinks they look like aliens.
(b) She finds them attractive.
(c) She thinks they are intimidating.
(d) It makes her want to vomit.

2. What is Sammy?
(a) The prime minister of Germany.
(b) An African man whom Sissie meets in Europe.
(c) The president of France.
(d) Sissie's boyfriend.

3. Who works in a supermarket?
(a) Indians whom Marija knows.
(b) Sissie's mother.
(c) Marija's husband.
(d) Sissie and the other volunteers.

4. How many people are in attendance at the dinner in the opening chapter of the novel?
(a) 6.
(b) 12.
(c) 17.
(d) 3.

5. How old are the Bavarian peasants who work in the garden?
(a) Middle-aged.
(b) Young adults.
(c) Teenagers.
(d) Elderly.

Short Answer Questions

1. What, according to the novel, do Sissie and the volunteers do most?

2. What does Sissie say about the train station?

3. Where does Sissie take her plane from?

4. At what time does Sissie often return to the camp?

5. What is the name designation for being born on a Thursday?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What is the profession of the Indian man whom Sissie meets?

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

5. Where does Sissie volunteer in Bavaria?

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

7. How does the poetic cycle in Part 2: "The Plums" claim that rulers gather their wealth?

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

9. In what language does Sissie explain that the angels take roll-call?

10. What does the narrator claim that power decides?

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