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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Matha go to school?
(a) She does not go to school.
(b) A girls' school.
(c) An English boarding school.
(d) A boys' school.

2. Who helps Agnes when she gets lost on Z Day?
(a) Grace.
(b) Lionel.
(c) Percy.
(d) Ronald.

3. Who cries all day?
(a) Grace.
(b) Matha.
(c) Lina.
(d) Sylvia.

4. Where does Loveness live?
(a) In an apartment.
(b) In a condo.
(c) In a security hut.
(d) In a big house.

5. Why does Agnes stop playing tennis for a while?
(a) Her parents make her stop playing tennis.
(b) She loses interest.
(c) She does not stop playing tennis.
(d) She goes blind.

6. Who is the father of Matha's child?
(a) Nkoloso.
(b) Jacob.
(c) John.
(d) Godfrey.

7. What does the narrator do while abroad?
(a) Dance.
(b) Bargain.
(c) Explore.
(d) Murder.

8. Who is Giacomo Gavuzzi?
(a) An Italian man.
(b) An African man.
(c) An American man.
(d) A French man.

9. Who is Grace?
(a) Agnes's neighbor.
(b) Agnes's boss.
(c) Agnes's maid.
(d) Agnes's friend.

10. Who finds Sylvia?
(a) Godfrey.
(b) Matha's aunt.
(c) Grace.
(d) The Weepers.

11. Why does Isa not want to have more than one child?
(a) She does not want any more children.
(b) She does not like pregnancy.
(c) She suffers several miscarriages after the first.
(d) She wants to have more after one child.

12. Who does Agnes meet at a country club?
(a) Ronald.
(b) Lionel.
(c) Frederico.
(d) Sam.

13. What does Matha become by the time she is a young adult?
(a) A doctor.
(b) A space cadet.
(c) An astronaut.
(d) A teacher.

14. Who kidnaps Sylvia?
(a) Godfrey.
(b) Matha.
(c) Grace.
(d) Cookie.

15. Who are the Weepers?
(a) A girl group.
(b) A boy band.
(c) A gang.
(d) A group of crying women.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is the narrator from?

2. Who does Frederico pretend to be in Africa?

3. Who does Sibilla leave a trail to her house for?

4. What does Balaji do to punish Isa?

5. Where does the narrator die?

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