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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. What does Tracey say the Chinese are interested in?

2. Who is one of the domestic workers who will help Tambu at her new home in Chapter 15?

3. Who does Tambu see in the supermarket after the movie in Chapter 13?

4. What does Leon tell Nyasha their children want in Chapter 13?

5. Who is the gardener at Tambu's new house in Chapter 15?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who visits Tambu at her new house in Chapter 17, and what do they do there?

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

3. Who does Tambu bump into after the movie in Chapter 13, and how does she feel about it?

4. Why does Tracey Stevenson tell Tambu she believes Tambu must believe in politics?

5. How does Tambu spend some of the money she had thought she might spend on Elizabeth?

6. How do Nyasha and Leon eventually dispel the tension between Mai Taka and Silence in Chapter 13?

7. What is a major source of tension between Leon and Nyasha that comes to light in Chapter 13?

8. What is Pedzi's new idea for Green Jacaranda in Chapter 16?

9. What does Tambu realize she has forgotten to do concerning Nyasha in Chapter 15?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What does Aunt Lucia's security agency, where Tambu ultimately ends up working in the end of the novel, symbolize? Write an essay discussing how Aunt Lucia's experiences in the war are related to her decision to start a security agency.

Essay Topic 2

How is the violence of the wars Tambu references related to the routine, yet brutal, violence that is demonstrated against Zimbabwean women? Write an essay explaining your answer, citing specific references to the text to support your answer.

Essay Topic 3

Write an essay analyzing why you think Dangarembga chooses to narrate the novel in the second-person, and what effect this choice has on the reader's understanding of Tambu's character.

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