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

2. Where do Darling and her friends go to get rid of Chipo's stomach in "We Need New Names"?
(a) To Darling's shack.
(b) Behind Heavenway.
(c) To Chipo's shack.
(d) To MotherLove's shack.

3. What does the man on the phone tell Darling to do before hanging up in "Blak Power"?
(a) To leave the house.
(b) To take the food.
(c) To go to the courthouse.
(d) To call the police.

4. MaS'banda has gotten the children to come to Shanghai to find what man in "Country-Game"?
(a) Moshe.
(b) Whiteboy.
(c) Zuze.
(d) Mr. Gono.

5. Where does Darling say she has seen the queen from the picture before in "Blak Power"?
(a) On British money.
(b) On television.
(c) While visiting London.
(d) On a newspaper.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Darling say she feels about going to church in "Darling on the Mountain"?

2. Where is Darling's father in "Darling on the Mountain"?

3. How do the children respond when Sbho asks in "Hitting Budapest," "Who discovered the way to India?"

4. What is Darling's mother's name?

5. What has Bornfree promised to give the children for distributing posters in "Real Change"?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are the perceptions of the coming election in "Real Change"?

2. What is revealed regarding Chipo's circumstances in "Hitting Budapest"?

3. What does Prophet Revelations Bitchington Mborro require to heal Darling's father?

4. Why are Darling and her friends going to Budapest in "Hitting Budapest"?

5. How is the interior of the white couple's home described in "Blak Power"?

6. How old is the protagonist when the novel begins? What is her family like?

7. What happens when the white couple comes to the door in "Blak Power"?

8. How does MotherLove respond when she encounters Darling and her friends in "We Need New Names"?

9. What is the objective of Darling and her friends in going to Shanghai? Do they achieve their objective?

10. What objective do Darling and her friends set out to achieve in "We Need New Names"? Do they achieve this objective?

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