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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 is the name of the school that Darling attended in Zimbabwe?
(a) Paradise Elementary School.
(b) Masiyephambili Elementary School.
(c) Queen Elizabeth Primary School.
(d) Fambeki Primary School.

2. Who has called Aunt Fostalina's house in “This Film Contains Some Disturbing Images”?
(a) MotherLove.
(b) Mgcini.
(c) Darling's father.
(d) Darling's mother.

3. What is the name of the dog at the home where Darling cleans in "My America"?
(a) Pepper.
(b) Fifi.
(c) Mittens.
(d) Titi.

4. What animal does the family car hit on the way to the wedding in "Wedding"?
(a) A dog.
(b) An antelope.
(c) A moose.
(d) A deer.

5. Who does Tshaka Zulu attack with a spear in "My America"?
(a) A mailman.
(b) A police officer.
(c) A bank guard.
(d) A pizza delivery guy.

Short Answer Questions

1. Darling describes the snow as being as white as what in "Destroyedmichygen"?

2. Of what celebrity does Darling say in “Hitting Crossroads," "I know that she can go anywhere in the world and get a baby wherever she wants"?

3. To whom does Darling describe her mother taking her get her to smoke from a gourd before she left for America in "Destroyedmichygen"?

4. Where is Marina from?

5. In "For Real," the narrator says, "I used to be very afraid of graveyards and death and such things, but not anymore. There is just no sense being afraid when you live so near the graves; it would be like" what?

Short Essay Questions

1. How would you compare the settings of Detroit and Kalamazoo in We Need New Names?

2. Whose funeral is observed by Darling and her friends in "For Real"? Why is the funeral significant?

3. Whose car have Darling and her friends taken in “Hitting Crossroads"? Why?

4. Who is Tshaka Zulu and how is his character introduced?

5. What "close call" do Darling and her friends encounter in the car in "Hitting Crossroads"?

6. What does Aunt Fostalina obsess over throughout the novel? Why?

7. How would you describe the communications between Darling and her friends back home in "Angel"?

8. Where are Darling and her family going to attend a wedding in "Wedding"? How is this setting described?

9. What happens in the exchange between Darling and Chipo in "Writing on the Wall"?

10. What is illuminated through Darling's conversation with the white woman in the restroom in "Wedding"?

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