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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. How is the road paved?
(a) With two narrow strips wide enough for a tire.
(b) Large enough for an oxcart.
(c) Large enough for two motor vehicles to travel abreast.
(d) Large enough for four lanes of traffic.

2. From where specifically do the Presidents of the North govern?
(a) Barcelona and Madrid.
(b) Provence, Geneva, and Milan.
(c) Germany and Switzerland.
(d) Ireland and England.

3. What can Sissie not understand?
(a) Why English is so difficult.
(b) Why England has the best schools.
(c) Why she needs to learn German.
(d) Why Africans leave warm climates to live in cold ones.

4. What are the chairs in Marija's house like?
(a) Old-fashioned and expensive.
(b) High-backed and fragile.
(c) Modernistic and made of artificial fiber.
(d) Old and unreliable.

5. Who writes letters to Kunle?
(a) Kunle's wife.
(b) Sissie.
(c) Kunle's sister.
(d) His mother.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Marija ask Sissie about her travel?

2. Where is the Welsh made whom Sissie meets from?

3. What does Sissie want to ask somebody?

4. What does Sissie say about her and Marija's love?

5. What types of letters does Sissie send to her mother?

Short Essay Questions

1. How much weight does Sissie gain when in Europe?

2. What does Marija give Sissie before she departs?

3. What does Part 2: "The Plums" say about education?

4. Where does Sissie stay in London?

5. Who tells Sissie that going out late is against the rules?

6. What meat does Marija plan to cook for Sissie on the day she is scheduled to depart?

7. What does Part 2: "The Plums" say about love?

8. Who does Marija say might one day visit Africa?

9. According to Sissie, what would have allowed her and Marija to have a love affair?

10. To what city does Sissie travel to meet her West African friend?

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