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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 power decide, according to the novel?
(a) Who will win the presidential election.
(b) Who is to live and die.
(c) Whether Sissie will marry her boyfriend.
(d) When Sissie will return to Africa.

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

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

4. Which is true about the promises made by Sissie and Marija?
(a) They are stifling to Sissie.
(b) They would not be kept.
(c) Marija is grateful for them.
(d) They are well-intentioned.

5. What does Marija have when she first meets Sissie?
(a) A designer purse.
(b) A bottle of gin.
(c) A baby pram.
(d) A bouquet of flowers.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following is NOT a project undertaken by Sissie's missionary group?

2. What does "Sissie" mean?

3. Which of the following does Sissie say about God?

4. Who is called Little Adolph?

5. What purpose does the castle now serve?

Short Essay Questions

1. What drink does Sissie encounter for the first time in Europe?

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

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

4. Which angel is described as the Black Devil?

5. What is the capital of Ghana?

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

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

8. Where does Sissie volunteer in Bavaria?

9. What does the narrator claim that power decides?

10. What fruit had Sissie never seen before coming to Germany?

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