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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 Darling describe Stina's fortune cookie saying in "Country-Game"?

2. How old is Chipo in "Hitting Budapest"?

3. What is printed on the floor mat to the white people's house in "Blak Power"?

4. Who is the old blind man that Darling passes on her way to church in "Darling on the Mountain"?

5. What does Darling describe Sbho's fortune cookie saying in "Country-Game"?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Mother of Bones count her money every morning? Why does she not use the money?

2. How is the guard described that the children encounter in "Blak Power"?

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

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

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

6. How is Prophet Revelations Bitchington Mborro's character described?

7. What happens when the lorries from NGO arrive in “Country-Game”?

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

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

10. What do the children observe at the overseer's tent when they arrive in “Country-Game”?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss Chipo's circumstances in the novel. How old is Chipo when she becomes pregnant? Who impregnated her? How has Chipo's pregnancy affected her?

Essay Topic 2

Describe and discuss Darling's family in the novel. What is Darling's relationship like with her mother? What is her relationship like with her father? How do these relationships evolve in the story?

Essay Topic 3

What are Darling's impressions of her cousin TK? How old is TK when Darling comes to live with him? What does TK busy himself with doing all of the time? How does TK's language style differ from Darling's?

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