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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 does Tambu suffer from in Chapter 17?
(a) Crippling leg pain.
(b) Insomnia.
(c) Blindness.
(d) Blood clots.

2. What is Tambu's mother doing when Tambu arrives at the homestead in Chapter 19?
(a) Pulling maize from cobs.
(b) Picking spinach.
(c) Killing chickens for dinner.
(d) Bandaging her hand.

3. What are Tambu's nieces' names?
(a) Freedom and Concept.
(b) Concept and Praise.
(c) Freedom and Silence.
(d) Concept and Concern.

4. Whose house does Tambu arrive at in Chapter 1 looking for accommodation?
(a) Tracey Stevenson.
(b) Mai Manyanga.
(c) Nyasha.
(d) Widow Riley.

5. Who taps on Tambu's window in the middle of the night in Chapter 6, asking to be let in?
(a) Mako.
(b) Tambu's mother.
(c) A woman Shine was once involved with.
(d) Nyasha.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who is Nyasha's husband?

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

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

5. What does Tambu do to Elizabeth in Chapter 8?

(see the answer key)

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