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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. Where do Marija and Sissie walk?

2. Who is the Minister of Education?

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

4. What does Marija have when she first meets Sissie?

5. What does power decide, according to the novel?

Short Essay Questions

1. Which angel is described as the Black Devil?

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

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

4. What is the capital of Ghana?

5. Where does Marija live?

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

7. What was Sissie's Christian name?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

The story is told from Sissie's perspective. Write an essay in which you evaluate the author's decision on relating the story from Sissie's perspective, and whether another character's perspective would have been equally compelling.

Essay Topic 3

Write an essay in which you evaluate the poetic interludes in the novel. What purpose do the poems serve? What is the effect on the reader when the poems break up the text? In your essay, you may conduct a close reading on any number of these poems as examples, and consider whether there are any common themes among these several poems, as well as what effect(s) they have on the reader.

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