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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part VI (Chapters 20 - 22).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do Leon and Nyasha have to borrow money for in order to help Mai Taka?
(a) Gas, so they can drive her to a clinic for medical help.
(b) Funeral expenses to bury her mother.
(c) Doctors' fees for her daughter, who is gravely ill.
(d) Ransom, so they can get her son back from kidnappers.

2. Why does Nyasha's daughter tell Nyasha that her brother Panashe does not want to go to school?
(a) Because the other children bully him.
(b) Because his teacher hits the children.
(c) Because he does not know his lessons.
(d) Because he thinks it is too expensive.

3. Who does Tambu encounter at the mental health institution that surprises her?
(a) Her old neighbor Bertha.
(b) The Widow Riley.
(c) Nyasha.
(d) Mai Manyanga.

4. What does Tambu do in response to the crowd's anger toward Gertrude?
(a) She closes the bus door on Gertrude.
(b) She picks up a rock and gets ready to throw it at Gertrude.
(c) She finds a man to help Gertrude.
(d) She defends Gertrude.

5. What other relative does Tambu spend a significant amount of time telling the doctor about in Chapter 9?
(a) Mako.
(b) Nyasha.
(c) Her daughter.
(d) Christine.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Tambu decline to have put in her new room in Chapter 3?

2. What kind of creature does Tambu imagine herself as in the mirror in Chapter 1?

3. Why is Ma'Tabitha worried about Tambu in Chapter 17?

4. What do Tambu's visitors try to convince her of in Chapter 21?

5. What kind of promotion does Tambu receive in Chapter 18?

(see the answer key)

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