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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act One: Scenes 2-4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What significant question does Mama ask Christian after Josephine takes Sophie and Salima out back to get washed up?
(a) Has either one been pregnant?
(b) Are they expecting to be paid?
(c) Why have you brought them here?
(d) Did you at least tell them this time?

2. When Mama argues against taking in Sophie, she tells Christian that she already feeds how many young women "while half the country starves" (13)?
(a) 5.
(b) 14.
(c) 8.
(d) 11.

3. Mama recalls her mother taking her and her brothers to what location so that she could "visit with uncles" (18)?
(a) Kinshasa.
(b) A swamp.
(c) The zoo.
(d) Kisangani.

4. In what type of small town does Scene 1 of Act One begin?
(a) Trading.
(b) Mining.
(c) Ghost.
(d) Tourist.

5. Christian tells Sophie near the end of Scene 1 in Act Two that she is lucky, since many people of what type "would've left [her] for dead" (18)?
(a) Members of her family.
(b) Uncles.
(c) Soldiers.
(d) Men.

Short Answer Questions

1. With what object does Mama wipe Sophie's eyes when tears of pain escape from Sophie's eyes?

2. What day does Mama mention when she refers to Old Papa Batunga's passing?

3. What animal does Mama name in a simile when she describes Christian's annoying tenacity?

4. How old was Mama when a white man came with a deed and seized her family's land?

5. How old is the "overly loved" (5) suit worn by Christian in Scene 1 of Act One?

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