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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How soon did Minke record events?
(a) When he felt like he.
(b) A week later.
(c) He never recorded anything - he wrote from memory.
(d) Soon after they happened.

2. What does Robert Suurhof tell Minke about beauty?
(a) Beauty is European.
(b) Beauty is not personality.
(c) Beauty is overrated.
(d) Beauty is mixed blood.

3. Why was Nyai kept in the house at age 13?
(a) She was ugly.
(b) Her beauty.
(c) She lied to her parents.
(d) She had to work.

4. What is this story about?
(a) Folktales.
(b) War.
(c) Understanding roots.
(d) First love.

5. What does Nyai request in the letter she sends to Minke?
(a) That he never return.
(b) That he return to school.
(c) That he visit.
(d) That he attend church with them.

6. What does Jean Marais tell Minke about love?
(a) It always ends happily.
(b) It is dangerous.
(c) It should be avoided.
(d) It stinks.

7. How does Annelies help Minke settle in Chapter 4?
(a) She gives him a drink.
(b) She accepts his gift.
(c) She kisses him.
(d) She unpacks for him.

8. What does the word nyai mean?
(a) First born.
(b) Heavenly woman.
(c) Concubine.
(d) Doctor.

9. Who tells Minke the story of how Nyai became a nyai?
(a) Robert.
(b) Jean.
(c) May.
(d) Annelies.

10. What ethnicity is Minke?
(a) Dutch.
(b) Japanese.
(c) Javanese.
(d) French.

11. What racial groups does Minke compare in Chapter 6?
(a) Europeans and Middle Easterns.
(b) Asians and Americans.
(c) Whites and natives.
(d) Americans and Indies.

12. Why does Minke's friend in Chapter 3 tell him he is capable of making wise choices?
(a) He is European.
(b) He is a native.
(c) He is educated.
(d) He is 32.

13. Who is Nyai Ontosoroh?
(a) A concubine.
(b) A singer.
(c) A queen.
(d) A doctor.

14. What does Minke decline to tell the reader?
(a) His age.
(b) His true identity.
(c) His location.
(d) His mother's name.

15. What does Minke state the actual events are now combined with?
(a) Truth.
(b) Hate.
(c) Imagination.
(d) Lies.

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of school does Minke attend?

2. What job did Nyai's father want?

3. What does Annelies ask about the letters in Chapter 4?

4. What does Minke wonder if Nyai did to him ?

5. Who killed Jean Marais' wife?

(see the answer keys)

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