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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 the novel liken to arguing with another black person?
(a) Cribbage.
(b) Russian roullete
(c) A game of solitaire.
(d) A chess game.

2. For Sissie, what do desserts represent?
(a) Her favorite meal.
(b) Her childhood.
(c) Overindulgence.
(d) A mark of the leisured class.

3. What does the narrative claim about a 'moderate' black person?
(a) He is obsessed with wealth.
(b) He is better educated.
(c) He is very handsome.
(d) He can only regurgitate what his master told him.

4. What does Sissie say about power?
(a) It is all anything is about.
(b) It is overrated.
(c) She wants it all for herself.
(d) It is not real.

5. What color do Bavarian ladies wear?
(a) Brown.
(b) Black.
(c) Red.
(d) Yellow.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Marija have in her garden?

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

3. At what time does Marija come to pick up Sissie for the first time?

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

5. What does its brochure say about the Bavarian castle?

Short Essay Questions

1. Which angel is described as the Black Devil?

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

3. To what does the narrator liken the experience of arguing with an academic-pseudo-intellectual black person?

4. In what type of car is Sissie picked up in Europe?

5. What does the narrator claim that power decides?

6. What is Sissie's father's position?

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

8. Where does Sissie volunteer in Bavaria?

9. What race Marija first assume Sissie to be?

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

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