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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What global issue does Tracey tell Tambu she is focused on as part of her business in Chapter 15?
(a) Arms control.
(b) Violence against women.
(c) Climate Change.
(d) Famine.

2. What does Tambu's mother call out for at the end of Chapter 19?
(a) Air, because she feels she is being suffocated.
(b) Water, because she is parched.
(c) Money, because she is so poor.
(d) Help, because she is being beaten by Tambu's father.

3. What happens to Mai Taka as a result of her having gone to the movies with Nyasha's family?
(a) Her husband Silence tells her to go live with Nyasha's family now.
(b) Her husband, Silence, takes her son away and places him with relatives.
(c) Her husband Silence takes all her wages for the month.
(d) Her husband Silence beats her.

4. What do Tambu's niece and nephew like to do when they visit Tambu?
(a) Eat sweets from the bakery next door.
(b) Play with the neighbors' children.
(c) Sleep.
(d) Swim in her pool.

5. What is Tambu dismayed to find on her kitchen table in Chapter 17?
(a) The bag of mealie meal.
(b) A group of ants.
(c) Bills to pay.
(d) A notice telling her she is evicted.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Tambu often do on Saturday mornings in Chapter 18?

2. Why is Mai Taka's husband upset that she is going to the movies with Nyasha's family?

3. Where does Tambu end up working in the end of the novel?

4. What is the name of Aunt Lucia's security company?

5. What does Tambu puzzle over that she finds in an old school exercise book of hers?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Nyasha bring for Tambu in Chapter 17 from her own house that Tambu left behind?

2. What do Christine and Aunt Lucia try to convince Tambu of in Chapter 21?

3. What publication does Tracey say is not allowed in the office any longer, and why?

4. What is the phrase Tambu uses in Chapter 20 that means almost the same thing as a bribe?

5. What does Tracey ask Tambu to have her relatives and friends in the village do in Chapter 21 that Tambu is not comfortable with?

6. What does Tambu's mother's outburst in Chapter 22 result in for Tambu?

7. Where does Tambu go in Chapter 17 to try to apologize for a terrible wrong she perpetrated in her past?

8. What are the long-term effects of Tambu's assault on Elizabeth that the reader discovers in Chapter 17?

9. What does Tracey Stevenson tell Tambu she would like Tambu to start anew for Green Jacaranda in Chapter 18?

10. At the end of the novel, where is Tambu working and how does she feel about her situation?

(see the answer keys)

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