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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Tambu's doctor in Chapter 9?

2. Why do Christine and Aunt Lucia come to Nyasha's in Chapter 12?

3. Who comes to the school to meet with Tambu and the headmistress at the end of Chapter 8?

4. What does Tambu do when she has her visitors in Chapter 10?

5. What does Tambu notice about Nyasha's clothes in Chapter 10?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Tambu do when she realizes Gertrude, her hostel mate, is about to be assaulted in Chapter 2?

2. What do Christine and Aunt Lucia come to help Nyasha with in Chapter 12, that Tambu also gets drafted into helping with?

3. What kind of animal does Tambu envision when she arrives in the mental health institution in Chapter 9?

4. What does Tambu take to helping herself to that belongs to Mai Manyanga in Chapter 5?

5. What does Tambu think about her new room in Mai Manyanga's house when she initially moves in in Chapter 4?

6. What does Tambu's cousin Nyasha do for work?

7. Why is Tambu taken to the mental health institution in Chapter 9?

8. Why does Tambu's respect for Aunt Lucia grow in Chapter 12?

9. What kind of shoes does Tambu wear to meet the Widow Riley in Chapter 1 and who gave them to her?

10. Why are Bertha and Mako pleased that a woman is causing such commotion at the Widow Manyanga's house in Chapter 6?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay analyzing what Pedzi's "Ghetto Getaways" idea for the Green Jacaranda brand symbolizes, and discuss how Tambu comes to feel about it.

Essay Topic 2

Write an essay analyzing how Mai Taka's experiences with her husband, Silence, represent women's plight in Zimbabwe. When Silence takes Mai Taka's son away from her, why does she not feel as if she can fight to get him back?

Essay Topic 3

"Your people say: you don't lose your appetite over another person's problems" (23). Consider this quote and write an essay explaining all the instances in which Tambu seems to demonstrate its spirit.

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