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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is Minke confused about concubines?
(a) Why they are low class.
(b) Why they go to church.
(c) Why they live on the island.
(d) How they can have children.

2. Why did Annelies not return to school for a period of time?
(a) Her bad grades.
(b) They moved to the islands.
(c) Her father's actions.
(d) Her mother's death.

3. Whose story does Minke tell at dinner in Chapter 4?
(a) His own story.
(b) Jean and May Marais.
(c) His father's story.
(d) Robert's story.

4. Who is the narrator in Chapter 6?
(a) Jean.
(b) Annelies.
(c) May.
(d) Minke.

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

6. Who does Nyai think Minke should write about?
(a) Harold.
(b) Robert.
(c) Jean.
(d) Annelies.

7. In Chapter 4, what does Minke bring to Annelies' house?
(a) Luggage.
(b) Flowers.
(c) A cat.
(d) Food.

8. What type of school does Minke attend?
(a) Army.
(b) Catholic.
(c) European influenced.
(d) American.

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

10. What does May see on her walk in Chapter 3?
(a) A flock of seagulls.
(b) A train.
(c) Kites.
(d) A fight.

11. Who does Nyai invite to become Annelies' little sister?
(a) The maid.
(b) May.
(c) Nyai.
(d) June.

12. Where do Annelies and Minke sit and talk in Chapter 4?
(a) The family restaurant.
(b) Minke's house.
(c) The garden.
(d) The beach.

13. How did Minke write his story?
(a) Through email.
(b) On a computer.
(c) On parchment.
(d) From notes he took.

14. What does Minke feel is necessary to reveal to the reader?
(a) His parents income.
(b) His address.
(c) How he imagined the characters.
(d) How he wrote the book.

15. Where does Minke go to school?
(a) A university in England.
(b) One of the best schools in the Indies.
(c) He is home-schooled.
(d) One of the worst schools in the Indies.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is wrong with the girl Minke likes?

3. What does Jean Marais do?

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

5. Who does Nyai believe is an excellent example of a tragic figure?

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