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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Darling say Chipo's baby will be in "Hitting Budapest"?
(a) A fish.
(b) A girl.
(c) A boy.
(d) A white baby.

2. What does Darling describe Sbho's fortune cookie saying in "Country-Game"?
(a) "Your future will be happy and productive."
(b) "Your talents will be recognized and suitably rewarded."
(c) "The nightlife is for you."
(d) "If I bring forth what is inside me, what I bring forth will save me."

3. "How They Appeared" begins with the line, "They did not come to Paradise. Coming would mean that they were" what?
(a) "Alive."
(b) "Choosers."
(c) "Hopeful."
(d) "Wanters."

4. How many faded suns are on the bedspread that Darling counts in "Darling on the Mountain"?
(a) 12.
(b) 9.
(c) 10.
(d) 16.

5. Who is the "short, light-skinned girl who took over MaDumane's husband when MaDumane went to be a housemaid?
(a) MaS'banda.
(b) Stina.
(c) MotherLove.
(d) Nosizi.

6. What does Darling describe Bastard's fortune cookie saying in "Country-Game"?
(a) "If I bring forth what is inside me, what I bring forth will save me."
(b) "Your talents will be recognized and suitably rewarded."
(c) "Your future will be happy and productive."
(d) "A pair of new shoes will do you a world of good."

7. When the children call out for the man that MaS'banda sent them to find in Shanghai, they learn that he has gone where in "Country-Game"?
(a) To the United States.
(b) To South Africa.
(c) To Botswana.
(d) To Zambia.

8. Who won the country-game today, according to Darling in "Hitting Budapest"?
(a) Stina.
(b) Sbho.
(c) Chipo.
(d) Bastard.

9. Where did MaDumane go to become a housemaid, according to the narrator in "We Need New Names"?
(a) South Africa.
(b) Botswana.
(c) Namibia.
(d) Zambia.

10. What does Darling describe Stina's fortune cookie saying in "Country-Game"?
(a) "If I bring forth what is inside me, what I bring forth will save me."
(b) "Your future will be happy and productive."
(c) "A pair of new shoes will do you a world of good."
(d) "Your talents will be recognized and suitably rewarded."

11. Why does Darling cross into Budapest in "Hitting Budapest"?
(a) To buy candy.
(b) To fetch her sister.
(c) To play hide-and-seek.
(d) To steal guavas.

12. What does Darling describe Chipo's fortune cookie saying in "Country-Game"?
(a) "Your future will be happy and productive."
(b) "Your talents will be recognized and suitably rewarded."
(c) "A pair of new shoes will do you a world of good."
(d) "If I bring forth what is inside me, what I bring forth will save me."

13. What do the children do in the bedroom of the white people's house in "Blak Power"?
(a) They smash all of the mirrors.
(b) They jump on the bed.
(c) They urinate on the floor.
(d) They steal the clothing.

14. From what narrative perspective is We Need New Names related?
(a) Third person, limited.
(b) Third person, omniscient.
(c) Second person.
(d) First person.

15. Who is the old blind man that Darling passes on her way to church in "Darling on the Mountain"?
(a) Whiteboy.
(b) Fraction.
(c) Mr. Gono.
(d) Zuze.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Darling say that people believe she is possessed in "Darling on the Mountain"?

2. What does Mother of Bones do every morning?

3. Who had offered to take Darling's family across the border when all of the troubles began, according to Darling's father in "Shhhh"?

4. How old is Bastard in "Hitting Budapest"?

5. Who finds the rusted clothes hanger to use to remove Chipo's stomach in "We Need New Names"?

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