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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who orders breakfast for Sissie's group?

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

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

5. Who does Marija think is Indian?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What was Sissie's Christian name?

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

4. Where does Sissie volunteer in Bavaria?

5. What is Sissie's nickname at the youth hostel?

6. Where does Marija live?

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

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

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

10. What is the capital of Ghana?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay in which you address the significance of language in the novel. What language does Sissie speak? What is(/are) the official language(s) of Ghana? What does Sissie think about the English language? Is language related to power, as demonstrated in the novel? Use evidence from the text to support your answer.

Essay Topic 2

Write an essay explaining why SIssie is uncomfortable in the west. What people, things, customs, or attitudes make Sissie insistent on going back to Africa? You may also evaluate Sissie's opinion from your own point of view. Use evidence from the text to support your answer.

Essay Topic 3

Write an essay in which you argue the relative merits of African students returning to Africa and remaining in Europe. In your essay, use evidence from the text (particularly Part 4: A Love Letter), and choose either the point of view of Sissie or of the African doctor quoted in her letter. Be sure to consider the opposite point of view, and use evidence from the text to support your answer.

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