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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 12, Pages 277 - 299.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Craig get messages to Henry Pickering?
(a) Through a monitored fax machine.
(b) Through the American Embassy.
(c) Through an American missionary.
(d) Through encrypted e-mail.

2. What does Craig manage to do when the soldiers catch up to him and Sally-Anne?
(a) Pay them off.
(b) Join them.
(c) Kill all but one soldier.
(d) Reason with them.

3. How does Peter feel about Craig's plans for Chizarira?
(a) Peter gives Craig new ideas on improving the land.
(b) Peter warns Craig not to go forward with his plans.
(c) Peter offers to help Craig financially.
(d) Peter tells Craig it is a waste of money.

4. In Section 4, how do Craig's friends respond to the beginning of his next novel?
(a) With emotion and tears.
(b) With happiness.
(c) With anger.
(d) With concern for the outcome.

5. What does Peter tell Bukharin he wants other than Zimbabwe?
(a) All of Botswana.
(b) All countries touching the Zimbabwe border.
(c) All of Africa.
(d) All the land to the south of Zimbabwe.

Short Answer Questions

1. What prized possession does Craig bring back to Africa in Section 4?

2. Craig decides the only way he can fight Peter's soldiers that are pursuing him into the desert is...

3. How does Craig feel about himself as a writer?

4. What unnerves Craig about working with Peter?

5. After traveling through the desert and being near exhaustion, why do Craig and Sally-Anne abandon the rifle and ammunition they are carrying?

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