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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part III (Chapters 9 - 12).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do Tambu's students nickname her?
(a) Tambudzai the Grief.
(b) The Hammer.
(c) Tambudzai the Terrible.
(d) The Face.

2. Who gave Tambu the nice heels she owns?
(a) Nyasha.
(b) Mrs. May.
(c) Mako.
(d) Christine.

3. What does the woman who knocks on Tambu's window in Chapter 6 end up doing?
(a) Shoving a letter under Shine's door.
(b) Threatening to hurt herself.
(c) Stripping naked in the front yard and calling for Shine to come out.
(d) Leaving a baby in a basket on the front stoop.

4. What does Tambu's doctor surmise Tambu feels guilty about?
(a) The death of her brother.
(b) Leaving her job.
(c) Leaving her mother.
(d) The beating of Elizabeth.

5. What is one of the questions the voice asks Tambu in Chapter 9?
(a) Who she is spying for.
(b) How much money she makes.
(c) Where her mother is.
(d) What the date is.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Nyasha tell her children to call Tambu?

2. Who eventually saves Gertrude from the crowd?

3. What do Mai Manyanga's sons discuss among themselves in Chapter 4?

4. What kinds of sounds does Tambu hear from Shine's room next door?

5. Who does Tambu go to live with right after she leaves the mental health institution?

(see the answer key)

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